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
Cc Biotechnology Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, DARB, HAMZA A., who is the busiest examiner for the company. The portfolio's current activity is limited to a distinct art unit. This distribution suggests a narrow prosecution front, as the entirety of the pending workload is managed by the assigned examiner in a specific art unit.
For the practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the current pending portfolio rests on the interaction with the assigned examiner. Without other pending actions or art units to provide context, the strategy must be tailored to the specific feedback received in this case. The busiest examiner's workload of 1 pending action matches the total portfolio volume, confirming that all current efforts are focused on this single matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18742967 | DRIVING PISTON SET OF AN INJECTOR AND CONVERSION MECHANISM HAVING THE SAME | DARB, HAMZA A. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18742967 | DRIVING PISTON SET OF AN INJECTOR AND CONVERSION MECHANISM HAVING THE SAME | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
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