Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vapocoolshot Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly focused prosecution strategy for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for Vapocoolshot Inc. is DANIEL, ANTARIUS S, who is handling 1 pending office action. This examiner manages the company's entire current workload at the patent office. The presence of only one art unit highlights the narrow focus of the pending mechanical engineering matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 2 | 52.1% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17537424 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING AN ENDOTHERMIC VAPOR TO SKIN AS AN ANESTHETIC | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 44d overdue |
| 18059652 | ENDOTHERMIC VAPOR AND ANTIMICROBIAL SKIN ANESTHETIC AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18059652 | ENDOTHERMIC VAPOR AND ANTIMICROBIAL SKIN ANESTHETIC AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17537424 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING AN ENDOTHERMIC VAPOR TO SKIN AS AN ANESTHETIC | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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