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
BLANCTEC INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a single distinct art unit. OSWALD, KIRSTIN U is the busiest examiner for this portfolio.
Because there is only a single pending office action, the busiest examiner is responsible for the entire pending workload. The presence of a sole distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit for this action indicates a very specific point of contact within the patent office. This ratio between pending matters and examiners suggests that the prosecution is highly concentrated.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering designation provides the technical context for this pending matter. This concentration suggests that the examiner's individual preferences will be the primary factor in the outcome of the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290887 | ICE-MAKING DEVICE AND ICE-MAKING METHOD | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 168d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290887 | ICE-MAKING DEVICE AND ICE-MAKING METHOD | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 168d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290887 | ICE-MAKING DEVICE AND ICE-MAKING METHOD | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
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