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
Alpha Machine Knife Company Limited currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated approach to its current intellectual property filings. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the administrative oversight required for the company's pending applications. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the rules and trends of this single art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DONG, LIANG, who is currently processing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio of pending actions, the company can focus its legal resources on the specific preferences and precedents of this examiner. The alignment of the 1 pending office action within a single art unit indicates that the current technical focus remains strictly within the mechanical engineering domain. This structure allows the legal team to focus on the specific technical requirements and precedents of a single division within the patent office, streamlining the path toward potential allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283583 | SINGLE BODY DEMOLITION SHEAR BLADE | DONG, LIANG | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283583 | SINGLE BODY DEMOLITION SHEAR BLADE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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