Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tomco2 Systems Company has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. The company is currently interacting with 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different person. KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK | 1 | 77.9% | +17.0% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.9% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19016358 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND STORAGE ASSEMBLY | KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK | 40d |
| 18656235 | BLOCK PRESS FOR PRODUCING SOLID CARBON DIOXIDE | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656208 | LIQUID CARBON DIOXIDE SUBCOOLER | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 16d overdue |
| 19016358 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND STORAGE ASSEMBLY | KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK | 40d |
| 18656235 | BLOCK PRESS FOR PRODUCING SOLID CARBON DIOXIDE | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19016358 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND STORAGE ASSEMBLY | KELLY, TIMOTHY PATRICK | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18656235 | BLOCK PRESS FOR PRODUCING SOLID CARBON DIOXIDE | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18656208 | LIQUID CARBON DIOXIDE SUBCOOLER | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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