I am a patent agent with 11 years of prosecution practice, mostly in mechanical devices and medical instruments. I have drafted 214 applications and argued 390 office action responses, with a first-action allowance rate of 31 percent over the last 3 years. I read prior art the way other people read detective novels, and I bill for it.
A method of drafting patent claims comprising 11 years of practice, wherein independent claims survive restriction and Alice scrutiny in mechanical and medical-device art units 3731 through 3799.
The method of claim 1, wherein prior-art searching is performed across USPTO, EPO, and WIPO records with a documented recall of the 6 closest references in under 4 hours.
The method of claim 1, further comprising examiner interviews conducted by telephone or video, said interviews producing agreement in roughly 3 of every 4 attempts.
An apparatus for docket management comprising statutory-deadline tracking for 68 concurrent families with zero missed dates since 2015.
The method of claim 1, wherein written English is plain, section 112 support is explicit, and figures are numbered before the client asks.
Fig. 1 shows the general operation of the applicant. Element 12 consumes most of the coffee.
The applicant solemnly declares that the numbers above are his own work product, that the coffee in Fig. 1 was decaffeinated on no occasion, and that all deadlines were docketed twice.