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
Tottori Institute Of Industrial Technology has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates a streamlined prosecution profile for the institute's current filings. The success of the institute's current mechanical engineering patent strategy relies on the resolution of this 1 pending office action.
LONG, SARAH A is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for all current activity in this technology area. The presence of 1 distinct art unit means the institute is interacting with only 1 specialized group at the patent office for these mechanical engineering matters. This centralization can simplify the management of the portfolio, as the applicant only needs to address the standards of a single art unit and a single examiner.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877880 | NON-MAGNETIC FINE STAINLESS STEEL PROCESSED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LONG, SARAH A | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877880 | NON-MAGNETIC FINE STAINLESS STEEL PROCESSED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LONG, SARAH A | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877880 | NON-MAGNETIC FINE STAINLESS STEEL PROCESSED PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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