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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viking Pump Inc. is currently navigating the patent prosecution process within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which represents the total active workload for its current portfolio. This matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current filings are focused on a specific technical classification rather than being spread across multiple disciplines. For a patent practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the rules and trends of this single art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PRUITT, JUSTIN A, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the company's active matters, the outcome of the prosecution is entirely dependent on the review and feedback of this individual. This lack of examiner diversity simplifies the communication process but also increases the impact of any specific examiner preferences on the entire pending portfolio. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with a single examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined but highly centralized approach to securing intellectual property in the medical and mechanical fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 1 | 61.9% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472723 | UNIVERSAL-TYPE PUMP CASING WITH MODULAR PORTS | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 164d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472723 | UNIVERSAL-TYPE PUMP CASING WITH MODULAR PORTS | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 164d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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