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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Box Bot Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly concentrated and singular focus for the company's current patent office activity. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for this single action suggests that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on this specific interaction.
The busiest examiner, TAWFIK, SAMEH, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the company only has 1 pending office action, TAWFIK, SAMEH handles that single matter. This relationship between the company and the examiner simplifies the management of the active portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of TAWFIK, SAMEH within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687284 | Automated Parcel Buffering System | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687284 | Automated Parcel Buffering System | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687284 | Automated Parcel Buffering System | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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