Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Techsource Systems LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 2 pending office actions. This level of activity suggests a multi-project prosecution strategy compared to portfolios with 1 pending office action. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units further confirms the diversification of the company's intellectual property assets.
The distribution of the portfolio across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology spans different mechanical classifications. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company is not reliant on a single individual's interpretation of patentability. This spread helps mitigate the risk associated with the specific rejection tendencies or prior art interpretations of any 1 distinct examiner.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAUX, DAVID J, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split, with LAUX, DAVID J handling a portion of the active prosecution. This balance between the 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner and the 2 distinct examiners highlights a distributed prosecution environment for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUX, DAVID J | 1 | 65.0% | +28.3% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18317808 | FREEZE DRY SHELVING LAYUP | LAUX, DAVID J | 9d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304329 | FREEZE DRY SHELVING WITH INTEGRATED SENSING | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 45d overdue |
| 18317808 | FREEZE DRY SHELVING LAYUP | LAUX, DAVID J | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18317808 | FREEZE DRY SHELVING LAYUP | LAUX, DAVID J | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18304329 | FREEZE DRY SHELVING WITH INTEGRATED SENSING | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 3753 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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