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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
U-POWER GROUP S.P.A. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring a separate review for each case. These pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical focus for the company's current patent efforts.
COLLIER, JAMESON D is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are multiple pending office actions in total, the workload is split between the distinct examiners. This arrangement prevents any single examiner from dominating the prosecution landscape for the company.
The presence of a distinct art unit for the pending office actions suggests that the company's current innovations are closely related within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. However, the use of multiple examiners introduces different perspectives into the examination process. This combination of technical focus and examiner variety defines the company's current prosecution profile.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLIER, JAMESON D | 1 | 54.2% | +47.0% |
| MORAN, KATHERINE M | 1 | 54.2% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19264452 | PROTECTIVE HELMET | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 22d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19264452 | PROTECTIVE HELMET | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 22d overdue |
| 19264423 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR ATTACHING AN ACCESSORY TO THE SHELL OF A PROTECTIVE HELMET | COLLIER, JAMESON D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19264423 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR ATTACHING AN ACCESSORY TO THE SHELL OF A PROTECTIVE HELMET | COLLIER, JAMESON D | 3732 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19264452 | PROTECTIVE HELMET | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
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