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
The patent portfolio for Allen Yambao is currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 1 pending office action under review. Prosecution is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the current legal activity is focused on 1 technical claim set, allowing for a concentrated strategy without the need to manage multiple examiner preferences.
TAWFIK, SAMEH is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner responsible for the portfolio's active matters, TAWFIK, SAMEH's interpretation of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering standards will be the primary factor in the prosecution outcome. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, practitioners can focus their resources on the specific procedural habits and technical requirements of this examiner to move the 1 pending office action forward. This level of concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area reduces the administrative burden of tracking multiple disparate prosecution timelines.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17842269 | METHOD FOR MAKING TAMPER RESISTANT CONTAINERS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17842269 | METHOD FOR MAKING TAMPER RESISTANT CONTAINERS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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