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
Thermal Intelligence Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which points to a highly focused prosecution environment. The portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the technology is classified within a specific mechanical or medical niche.
CAMPBELL, THOR S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the company's full pending workload, which consists of 1 pending office action. Because all current activity is concentrated with one examiner and one art unit, the practitioner must focus on the specific examination standards of that individual. This data reflects a portfolio that is currently in a very specific stage of development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.0% | +1.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17756154 | POWER AND HEAT GENERATOR SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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