Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alma Lasers Ltd. focuses its patent activity in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, showing a varied technical distribution within the sector. The presence of 2 pending office actions suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct innovations within the medical device field.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions ensures that different individuals are reviewing the company's mechanical engineering applications. This can provide multiple perspectives on the company's technology within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
For practitioners, the distribution across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies must be adapted to different office environments. HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER and the other examiner each provide an independent review of the company's applications. This structure ensures that the company's medical device innovations are thoroughly vetted by different individuals across separate technical departments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 1 | 27.3% | +33.9% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768119 | LASER APPLICATOR | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 27d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18403831 | SONOTRODE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 14d |
| 18768119 | LASER APPLICATOR | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768119 | LASER APPLICATOR | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18403831 | SONOTRODE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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