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
Amazec Photonics IP B.V. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very focused administrative footprint. This alignment suggests that the company's current patent efforts are concentrated on a specific technical advancement within the medical device sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BERHANU, ETSUB D, who has 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total volume of the company's current pending office actions. Because the named official is the only examiner assigned to the case, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are entirely dependent on the review and internal practices of this specific individual.
The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a relatively low volume of active prosecution for the company. While this minimizes the complexity of managing multiple deadlines, it also means that the company's patent strategy is currently highly dependent on the results of this specific case. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of BERHANU, ETSUB D to optimize the response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290082 | OBTAINING CARDIOVASCULAR AND/OR RESPIRATORY INFORMATION FROM THE MAMMAL BODY | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290082 | OBTAINING CARDIOVASCULAR AND/OR RESPIRATORY INFORMATION FROM THE MAMMAL BODY | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290082 | OBTAINING CARDIOVASCULAR AND/OR RESPIRATORY INFORMATION FROM THE MAMMAL BODY | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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