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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Closure Systems International Inc. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution profile.
The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are limited to a specific technical niche. ISLAM, SANJIDUL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio.
ISLAM, SANJIDUL is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the company only has 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is managing the entirety of the company's active prosecution. The relationship between the 1 pending office action and the 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative oversight for the company's current legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 1 | 62.3% | +39.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040020 | CLOSURE WITH THREADING | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19040020 | CLOSURE WITH THREADING | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
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