Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agc Vidros Do Brasil Ltda currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet they all fall within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with multiple examiners, the technological focus remains highly specialized within a single administrative division of the patent office. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is focused on a specific technical niche.
The busiest examiner, RHUE, ABIGAIL H, is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This accounts for a portion of the 4 total pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that while RHUE, ABIGAIL H is a primary point of contact, the company must also manage relationships with other examiners within the same art unit to advance its overall portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination trends of this art unit, as the pending office actions are subject to its internal policies. The use of 3 distinct examiners shows examiner variety within the art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 2 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 49.4% | +53.4% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253548 | LASER APPARATUS COMPRISING A CLOSING MEANS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 4d overdue |
| 18252481 | LASER APPARATUS MOUNTED ON A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU COMPRISING A SKIRT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 4d overdue |
| 17998974 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING AT LEAST ONE PORTION OF AT LEAST ONE COATING SYSTEM PRESENT IN A MULTI-GLAZED WINDOW MOUNTED ON A STATIONARY OR MOBILE OBJECT | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 2d overdue |
| 18253246 | DECOATING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD TO DECOAT AT LEAST PARTIALLY A PORTION OF A COATING SYSTEM PRESENTS ON A SURFACE OF A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253548 | LASER APPARATUS COMPRISING A CLOSING MEANS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 4d overdue |
| 18252481 | LASER APPARATUS MOUNTED ON A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU COMPRISING A SKIRT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 4d overdue |
| 17998974 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING AT LEAST ONE PORTION OF AT LEAST ONE COATING SYSTEM PRESENT IN A MULTI-GLAZED WINDOW MOUNTED ON A STATIONARY OR MOBILE OBJECT | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 2d overdue |
| 18253246 | DECOATING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD TO DECOAT AT LEAST PARTIALLY A PORTION OF A COATING SYSTEM PRESENTS ON A SURFACE OF A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253548 | LASER APPARATUS COMPRISING A CLOSING MEANS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18253246 | DECOATING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD TO DECOAT AT LEAST PARTIALLY A PORTION OF A COATING SYSTEM PRESENTS ON A SURFACE OF A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18252481 | LASER APPARATUS MOUNTED ON A WINDOW MOUNTED IN SITU COMPRISING A SKIRT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND USE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 17998974 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING AT LEAST ONE PORTION OF AT LEAST ONE COATING SYSTEM PRESENT IN A MULTI-GLAZED WINDOW MOUNTED ON A STATIONARY OR MOBILE OBJECT | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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