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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brivaplast S R L is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters involve 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the company's applications, they all belong to the same specialized administrative group. Such a structure allows for some consistency in the examination environment while still involving multiple perspectives from 2 distinct examiners.
GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the company's current prosecution is split evenly between the assigned examiners. This even distribution of the workload means that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's filings. For the practitioner, this indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is receiving individual attention from different staff members within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605165 | CONTAINER FOR COSMETICS HAVING A REFILL SYSTEM | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605165 | CONTAINER FOR COSMETICS HAVING A REFILL SYSTEM | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605165 | CONTAINER FOR COSMETICS HAVING A REFILL SYSTEM | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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