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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delta Wheels LLC currently faces 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution phase for the company. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending intellectual property is categorized within a specific technical field, which may simplify the tracking of relevant prior art and examination standards. This focus allows the applicant to dedicate resources to a single technical dialogue with the patent office.
AFZALI, SARANG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under their authority. Given that the busiest examiner pending count of 1 accounts for all active office actions, this examiner's decisions are the primary factor in the company's current patenting progress. A thorough understanding of this examiner's past actions within the 1 art unit involved will be essential for successfully resolving the pending matter. The company's immediate success in this technology area is tied directly to the feedback from this 1 official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184484 | COMPOSITE WHEEL ASSEMBLIES | AFZALI, SARANG | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18184484 | COMPOSITE WHEEL ASSEMBLIES | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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