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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xgs Energy Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is highly concentrated, with all prosecution efforts focused on a single application.
ARANT, HARRY E is the busiest examiner for this company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 action and 1 examiner, this individual manages the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the patent office. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the review of a single examiner. The lack of broader activity across other examiners or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of this single pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047205 | Compositions and Methods to Form a Thermally Conductive Sheath | ARANT, HARRY E | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047205 | Compositions and Methods to Form a Thermally Conductive Sheath | ARANT, HARRY E | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047205 | Compositions and Methods to Form a Thermally Conductive Sheath | ARANT, HARRY E | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
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