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
Wuxi Newstart Controls Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is currently taking place within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in a specific technical domain.
HORTON, ANDREW ALAN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the company has only 1 pending office action, this examiner is the sole official managing the company's active filings. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner suggests a direct and singular line of communication with the office.
Practitioners should focus on the 1 pending office action by addressing the specific concerns of HORTON, ANDREW ALAN. The 1 distinct art unit designation indicates that the prosecution will be governed by the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Effectively managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is the primary task for the company's current patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.9% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572763 | SUCTION PORT STRUCTURE OF CLEANING MACHINE AND CLEANING MACHINE THEREOF | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 31d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572763 | SUCTION PORT STRUCTURE OF CLEANING MACHINE AND CLEANING MACHINE THEREOF | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572763 | SUCTION PORT STRUCTURE OF CLEANING MACHINE AND CLEANING MACHINE THEREOF | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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