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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taprite Micro Matic Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently has 1 pending office action. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CARROLL, JEREMY W, who is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The prosecution is located within a distinct art unit, suggesting a specific and focused technical classification for the company's recent filing activity.
As the busiest examiner, CARROLL, JEREMY W manages the 1 pending office action currently facing the portfolio. This creates a highly concentrated prosecution environment where the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the review of a single individual. For practitioners, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy must be highly tailored to the specific requirements and feedback of this one examiner. The lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units indicates a singular path through the examination process, emphasizing the importance of the interactions with this specific examiner in the medical devices and mechanical engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARROLL, JEREMY W | 1 | 75.0% | +12.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083278 | BAR GUN | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083278 | BAR GUN | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083278 | BAR GUN | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTaprite Micro Matic Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeremy W Carroll has the most, with 1 of Taprite Micro Matic Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.