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
Aft Automotive GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution effort for the company's mechanical and automotive-related innovations. The fact that the action is within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated under a consistent set of mechanical engineering standards.
LU, HAOTIAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success in this technology area depends on the specific feedback from Lu. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution in this area. This allows the company to maintain a direct and focused dialogue with the patent office regarding its mechanical designs.
For practitioners, the 1 pending office action requires a targeted response that addresses the specific technical issues raised by the examiner. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company can avoid the complexities of managing multiple examiners. Strategy should be tailored to the specific nuances of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Efficiently navigating the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit will be essential for the company's mechanical intellectual property strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 60.6% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18002696 | Chafe layer for a fluid conduit, fluid conduit, method for producing a fluid conduit and use of a polyurethane as a chafe layer and use of an ethylene copolymer as an additive | LU, HAOTIAN | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18002696 | Chafe layer for a fluid conduit, fluid conduit, method for producing a fluid conduit and use of a polyurethane as a chafe layer and use of an ethylene copolymer as an additive | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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