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
Zhejiang Dunan Arificial Environment Co. Ltd. maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is distributed across 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow administrative footprint for its current prosecution activities within the USPTO.
The prosecution effort involves 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's immediate legal interactions. MURPHY, KEVIN F is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for all of the company's 1 pending office actions, reflecting a consolidated oversight structure for these specific filings.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent strategy appears highly targeted. The presence of MURPHY, KEVIN F as the sole examiner for the 1 pending action suggests that the company's immediate outcomes in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depend on this specific individual's review and the requirements of that single art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.8% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715128 | ELECTRIC VALVE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715128 | ELECTRIC VALVE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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