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
Usnr LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. This split ensures that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current pending portfolio. The 2 distinct examiners bring separate perspectives to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings, requiring the applicant to tailor responses to each individual official.
The workload is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused administrative and technical scope for the company's mechanical engineering filings. Nikolaos Phillip Zervos is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action accounts for a portion of the 2 total pending actions currently facing the organization. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical focus for these filings within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
With 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit, the company must navigate two different individual perspectives within the same technical group. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 distinct art unit while tailoring their responses to the individual preferences of Nikolaos Phillip Zervos and the other examiner involved. Managing the 2 pending office actions requires consistency in technical arguments to ensure that responses in one case do not conflict with those in another within the same administrative group.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | 1 | — | — |
| NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 1 | 76.5% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649530 | MODULAR PRESS | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 83d |
| 19000286 | LOG AND CANT OPTIMIZATION | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649530 | MODULAR PRESS | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000286 | LOG AND CANT OPTIMIZATION | ZERVOS, NIKOLAOS PHILLIP | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18649530 | MODULAR PRESS | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 3725 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
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