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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity for this entity is focused on this individual matter, which constitutes the total active workload reported. This 1 pending office action is the path for the company's current intellectual property goals in the mechanical engineering field.
RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload as reported. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the technology is being reviewed within a specific mechanical engineering classification. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's experience is defined by the assigned examiner and art unit. Practitioners should prepare for a focused interaction with these specific USPTO representatives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 1 | 90.1% | +3.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405743 | SECUREMENT DEVICE FOR PIPES, CABLES OR CATHETERS | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18405743 | SECUREMENT DEVICE FOR PIPES, CABLES OR CATHETERS | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 3741 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
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