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
Alfabio S R L holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly focused prosecution effort for the company at this time.
The busiest examiner is KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the current prosecution activity is very centralized. This indicates a specific technical focus for the company's pending medical device claims. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the review of KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS within that 1 distinct art unit. This streamlined structure allows for a direct line of communication but also means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by a single point of authority at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853957 | CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING FOOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853957 | CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING FOOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853957 | CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING FOOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
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