Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xomox Pft Corp. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling a separate matter. Despite having multiple examiners, the company's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are all operating within the technical standards of the art unit. This concentration in a technical area suggests a focused patent strategy.
The busiest examiner is ROST, ANDREW J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of them. This distribution shows that the workload is split between the distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this requires managing different examiner relationships within the same art unit. The consistency of the art unit may allow for a more uniform technical strategy even though the company must address the specific concerns of different individuals. This approach ensures that the legal arguments remain consistent across the portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.6% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536549 | TORQUE REDUCTION VALVE HAVING SEPARATE STATIC SEAL AND DYNAMIC SEAL | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17536550 | SLEEVED PLUG VALVE WITH REMOVABLE CARTRIDGE AND MODULAR OPTION FOR VALVE BODY | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 162d overdue |
| 17536549 | TORQUE REDUCTION VALVE HAVING SEPARATE STATIC SEAL AND DYNAMIC SEAL | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17536550 | SLEEVED PLUG VALVE WITH REMOVABLE CARTRIDGE AND MODULAR OPTION FOR VALVE BODY | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 162d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
| 17536549 | TORQUE REDUCTION VALVE HAVING SEPARATE STATIC SEAL AND DYNAMIC SEAL | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2021 |
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