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
Easypak LLC operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a prosecution phase where the 1 pending office action is handled by a single individual. The focus is entirely on this single active case within the broader mechanical engineering field. This concentration allows for a dedicated approach to the company's current patent objectives.
The portfolio's current activity is localized in 1 distinct art unit. ANDREW THOMAS KIRSCH is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner accounts for the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company in this technology area. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution of the company's medical device technology is currently subject to a specific review process. This ensures that the 1 pending office action is managed without the complexities of multiple examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971723 | CONTAINER FOR CUT PRODUCT | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971723 | CONTAINER FOR CUT PRODUCT | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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