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
Andritz Perfojet SAS has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to ZHAO, AIYING, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The prosecution is currently limited to a single art unit, reflecting a specialized focus for the active portfolio.
With a single distinct examiner handling the only active case, the company's prosecution progress is entirely dependent on this interaction. The small volume of the pending office action indicates a very specific or early-stage engagement within the mechanical engineering field. Success in this instance requires a direct and focused response to the specific examiner's concerns. The concentration of the workload suggests that the company is not currently pursuing a high volume of simultaneous applications in this technology area. This singular focus allows for an analysis of the examiner's previous rulings to optimize the chances of a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, AIYING | 1 | 48.4% | +42.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19273709 | DEVICE FOR FORMING BY CARDING ONE OR MORE FLEECES OF FIBRES, IN PARTICULAR NON-WOVEN | ZHAO, AIYING | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19273709 | DEVICE FOR FORMING BY CARDING ONE OR MORE FLEECES OF FIBRES, IN PARTICULAR NON-WOVEN | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
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