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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
X'Pole Precision Tools Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, but they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The concentration of 2 pending office actions total within 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
Although there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the fact that they share an art unit may lead to some consistency in the prior art applied. Because the busiest examiner, CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES, only manages 1 pending office action, the applicant must address the individual requirements of two different examiners within the same technical field. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with a unified technical approach. Practitioners should be prepared to coordinate responses to ensure that arguments made to one examiner do not negatively impact the other case within the same art unit. This focused distribution of workload in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a deep dive into a specific technical area while navigating multiple examiner perspectives. Successfully managing these interactions will be essential for the company's overall patent strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 57.3% | +41.1% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 52.7% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330893 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 26d |
| 18301011 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18330893 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18301011 | RANDOM ORBITAL SANDING TOOL | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
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