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
Aigain Beauty Ltd. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity at the patent office. This 1 pending office action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution footprint. Such concentration suggests that the company's immediate legal outcomes are tied to a very specific technical niche and the administrative review of the 1 distinct examiner. The presence of 1 distinct art unit implies that the technical arguments used by the company are currently confined to the set of examination standards for that unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is STEINBERG, AMANDA L, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action total across the whole portfolio, this examiner's workload accounts for all active matters for Aigain Beauty Ltd. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this individual examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units means that any feedback received will be highly specific to this channel of prosecution, requiring a precise response to the 1 pending office action to move the portfolio forward. Success in this 1 distinct examiner interaction is critical for the company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 1 | 51.3% | +27.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302817 | Artificial intelligence for improved skin tightening | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302817 | Artificial intelligence for improved skin tightening | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18302817 | Artificial intelligence for improved skin tightening | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3700 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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