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
Willis Tribe Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, CORNETT, ROBERT D, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The portfolio is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical and legal requirements for the applicant. This allows for a highly specialized response strategy tailored to the specific concerns of the assigned examiner.
The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a targeted prosecution phase. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the legal team can develop a specific rapport and understanding of that individual's examination style. This avoids the complexity of managing multiple pending actions across different examiners or art units. The focus on 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a consistent technical framework. By addressing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the applicant can focus on the specific requirements of the pending application currently in the queue.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORNETT, ROBERT D | 1 | 39.2% | +44.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266410 | Shaving Apparatus | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266410 | Shaving Apparatus | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18266410 | Shaving Apparatus | CORNETT, ROBERT D | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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