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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bobst Lyon currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The singular nature of these figures indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent office engagement.
SAMEH TAWFIK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action currently under review. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload. The placement of this action within 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Practitioners should focus on the 1 pending office action as the primary point of interest for the portfolio. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner, SAMEH TAWFIK, simplifies the communication channel for this specific matter. Monitoring the progress of this 1 pending action is the key priority for understanding the current status of the company's patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684023 | CONVERTING MACHINE AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684023 | CONVERTING MACHINE AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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