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 BEL is categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio shows 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a very specific and concentrated area of technical review for the company's current active filings.
TAWFIK, SAMEH is the busiest examiner for BEL, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire current workload at the patent office. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts rests with the specific examination practices of this 1 examiner and the 1 assigned art unit. The focus on 1 art unit suggests that BEL's current patenting activity is highly specialized within the broader medical and mechanical field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835048 | BLANK CUT FOR PACKAGING A PORTION OF FOOD | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835048 | BLANK CUT FOR PACKAGING A PORTION OF FOOD | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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