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
Terravox Industries LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE, within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the portfolio, this examiner is the only 1 currently active on the company's cases. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are currently confined to 1 specialized group.
Practitioners should recognize that with 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is highly focused. BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE is the sole point of contact at the USPTO for the current pending matters. The focus within 1 distinct art unit means that the practitioner only needs to navigate the specific guidelines of that 1 unit. This allows for a very efficient and direct approach to the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 1 | 75.9% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866059 | TOUCHLESS FAUCET USING HAND TRACKING | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866059 | TOUCHLESS FAUCET USING HAND TRACKING | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866059 | TOUCHLESS FAUCET USING HAND TRACKING | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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