Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Tm4 Italia S R L has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, yet they fall within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company must interact with different individuals, the technical oversight for their portfolio remains centralized within a specific administrative division of the patent office. The pending office actions benefit from the consistent prior art environment of this 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, ROCKSHANA D CHOWDHURY, is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the company's current pending workload. The concentration of the pending office actions within the art unit may allow for a more cohesive technical strategy, even as the distinct examiners may bring different perspectives to the individual applications. For Dana Tm4 Italia S R L, the prosecution landscape is defined by this balance between the distinct examiners and the administrative unity of the art unit. Practitioners should look for commonalities in the rejections issued by the distinct examiners to streamline their responses within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | 1 | 80.9% | +23.2% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000222 | INGRESS PROTECTION OF POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND A METHOD FOR AN AIR LEAKAGE TEST THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | — |
| 18194366 | ROTOR OF A VARIABLE-RELUCTANCE SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR | TRINH, MINH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000222 | INGRESS PROTECTION OF POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND A METHOD FOR AN AIR LEAKAGE TEST THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000222 | INGRESS PROTECTION OF POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND A METHOD FOR AN AIR LEAKAGE TEST THEREOF | CHOWDHURY, ROCKSHANA D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18194366 | ROTOR OF A VARIABLE-RELUCTANCE SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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