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 Trash Can Cleaners LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a single point of prosecution for the company's current patent applications. This focused approach suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is centered on a specific mechanical solution within its field.
ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This workload constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action for the portfolio, meaning all current interactions are focused on this 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. For the practitioner, this simplifies the prosecution process, as there is only 1 distinct examiner to interface with regarding the 1 pending office action. The alignment of the action within 1 distinct art unit ensures that the examination will be conducted under a consistent set of departmental standards, allowing for a more targeted and efficient response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 1 | 40.9% | +29.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18754839 | Lift, Sprayer, and Tank Skid for Distribution of Water | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18754839 | Lift, Sprayer, and Tank Skid for Distribution of Water | ONDREJCAK, ANDREW DOMENIC | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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