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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Steelstone Group LLC operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This figure indicates a focused prosecution stage for the company's mechanical engineering technologies. For a practitioner, this volume suggests that the current legal efforts are concentrated on a single set of medical device claims at the USPTO.
The examination of these filings is conducted by a distinct examiner in a single art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's medical device innovations are being reviewed through a single administrative path. RHUE, ABIGAIL H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The involvement of a single art unit ensures that the company's innovations are evaluated within a consistent technical and administrative framework.
RHUE, ABIGAIL H is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only a single pending action overall, the feedback from RHUE, ABIGAIL H is the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. Practitioners should prepare responses that address the specific concerns of RHUE, ABIGAIL H and the standards of the art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099019 | BEVERAGE MAKER | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099019 | BEVERAGE MAKER | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18099019 | BEVERAGE MAKER | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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