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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weir Minerals U S Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WADDY, JONATHAN J, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The matter is classified within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific focus for this single piece of pending litigation.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution profile is highly concentrated. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the success of the current portfolio rests entirely on the interaction with WADDY, JONATHAN J. This lack of diversification across examiners or art units is typical for a company with a single active matter. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit and the past patterns of the 1 distinct examiner to optimize the outcome for this 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.7% | +36.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19153300 | SLEEVE SEAL LUBRICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GATE VALVE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19153300 | SLEEVE SEAL LUBRICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GATE VALVE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
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