Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tan Grow Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which represents the company's entire current pending workload. The matter is located within a distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical review process for this specific application.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PARKER, LAURA EBERT, who is currently responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner with an active case for the company, this individual is the primary point of contact at the USPTO. This concentration of the pending office action under one person means that the company's immediate prosecution success is tied to a single examiner's discretion.
The data shows a very streamlined prosecution profile with the pending office action and the distinct art unit. Practitioners should note that there is no diversity in the examiners or art units currently reviewing the company's work. The focus remains entirely on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, and the strategy is currently limited to the interaction with PARKER, LAURA EBERT. Understanding this examiner's specific approach to mechanical engineering claims is essential for success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 58.1% | +24.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001515 | Foldable Container and Foldable Supporting Frame Thereof, and Folding Method | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 29d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001515 | Foldable Container and Foldable Supporting Frame Thereof, and Folding Method | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | Other | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Dec 25, 2024 |
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