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
The Clean Plunger LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular point of prosecution. This concentration allows the company to dedicate its legal resources to a single examination process rather than managing multiple simultaneous reviews.
The matter is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technical innovations are being evaluated within a specific group. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination practices of this 1 unit. Understanding the specific internal policies of the department is critical for success in moving the application toward allowance.
DEERY, ERIN LEAH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the pending office action. The busiest examiner pending count is 1, confirming that this individual is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's pending work. The outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on this specific interaction. Practitioners should analyze the historical patterns of the examiner to prepare an effective response.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 1 | 58.3% | +49.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229730 | Self-Cleaning Plunging Apparatus and Method of Use | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229730 | Self-Cleaning Plunging Apparatus and Method of Use | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
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