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
Aarke AB has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical classification for the pending applications. For a practitioner, this means that while different individuals are reviewing the cases, they are likely applying the same internal guidelines and prior art databases common to that specific art unit.
CAMPBELL, THOR S is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles half of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The use of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit shows that while the technical field is narrow, the workload is shared among different personnel at the patent office. This distribution allows for a comparison of examiner behaviors within the same art unit, which can be useful for developing a more robust prosecution strategy across the company's mechanical engineering portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.0% | +1.0% |
| FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 1 | 42.6% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252328 | CARBONATOR OF USER-FRIENDLY DESIGN AND METHOD OF CARBONATING A BEVERAGE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550633 | CARBONATOR COMPARTMENT | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18252328 | CARBONATOR OF USER-FRIENDLY DESIGN AND METHOD OF CARBONATING A BEVERAGE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
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