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
Teco-Westinghouse Motor Company operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific focus on a particular technical niche. The presence of a single pending action suggests a targeted approach to its current intellectual property development within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The prosecution for the company involves 1 distinct examiner. BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This count is identical to the total number of pending actions for the entire company. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current interaction with the patent office is entirely concentrated under one examiner's review. This concentration allows for a focused prosecution strategy tailored to the specific requirements of this examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544273 | MODULAR OPEN-AIR SKID WITH ELECTRICAL VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR NATURAL GAS COMPRESSION | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18544273 | MODULAR OPEN-AIR SKID WITH ELECTRICAL VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR NATURAL GAS COMPRESSION | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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