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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thurne-Middleby Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE, is handling 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the total pending actions, as each official has a single case. The 2 pending office actions being in a single distinct art unit suggests that the company is pursuing related technologies that fall under the same supervisory group.
Managing this portfolio involves coordinating responses for the pending matters across the distinct examiners. Because both officials are in 1 distinct art unit, there may be shared internal policies or trends that affect both cases. The pending action with KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE is a key focus for the company's mechanical engineering intellectual property.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843049 | FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF | DONG, LIANG | 23d |
| 18850318 | AN ASSEMBLY FOR GUIDING A FOOD PRODUCT IN A FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843049 | FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF | DONG, LIANG | 23d |
| 18850318 | AN ASSEMBLY FOR GUIDING A FOOD PRODUCT IN A FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850318 | AN ASSEMBLY FOR GUIDING A FOOD PRODUCT IN A FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18843049 | FOOD PORTIONING MACHINE AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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