Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thin Gold Line, Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners. All prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal challenges are technically focused in one area but are subject to the review of multiple officials.
The busiest examiner is MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents a portion of the 2 total pending office actions. Because the number of distinct examiners is 2, each examiner is responsible for a single application. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit means both examiners likely follow similar technical guidelines. However, the presence of MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R and another distinct examiner requires a strategy that accounts for different individual perspectives within that 1 art unit. The 2 pending actions reflect the entire current workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 1 | 47.4% | +68.3% |
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332567 | PROGRESSIVE STIFFNESS ENERGY DISTRIBUTING SUSPENSION OF IMPACT PLATE | HUANG, GRACE | 308d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332567 | PROGRESSIVE STIFFNESS ENERGY DISTRIBUTING SUSPENSION OF IMPACT PLATE | HUANG, GRACE | 308d overdue |
| 18559278 | SELECTIVELY POSITIONABLE SPACER AND GARMENT ATTACHMENT REGIONS | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559278 | SELECTIVELY POSITIONABLE SPACER AND GARMENT ATTACHMENT REGIONS | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18332567 | PROGRESSIVE STIFFNESS ENERGY DISTRIBUTING SUSPENSION OF IMPACT PLATE | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 308d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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