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
University Of Virgina Patent Foundation currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA, and is being processed in 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is characterized by this single pending matter, representing a focused point of interaction with the USPTO.
SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA is the busiest examiner for the foundation, holding 1 pending office action. As the only examiner with an active matter, she is the sole official responsible for the current prosecution of the foundation's pending intellectual property. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated within a specific mechanical or medical framework, providing a clear technical path for the foundation's legal team.
With 1 pending office action to manage, the foundation can focus its resources on the specific requirements of SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA. The simplicity of having 1 examiner and 1 art unit reduces the administrative burden of tracking multiple applications. Practitioners should leverage this focused environment to provide a precise response within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to advance the foundation's interests.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 1 | 73.0% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707450 | COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE AND REGENERATION THEREOF | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707450 | COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE AND REGENERATION THEREOF | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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