Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Embalajes Capsa S L currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and several distinct art units, indicating a diversified prosecution landscape. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple different technological paths or applications within the broader mechanical engineering field.
GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner dominates the company's current workload, requiring a strategy that addresses multiple distinct examination environments. Practitioners must be prepared to handle several different sets of examiner preferences and art unit cultures simultaneously. This variety provides a level of risk mitigation, as the progress of the portfolio is not tied to a single examiner or unit.
The fact that there are multiple distinct art units involved means the company's innovations are being vetted by several different specialized groups. The 3 pending office actions represent a broader engagement with the patent office compared to more concentrated portfolios. This diversified approach allows the company to test different claim strategies across various examination channels. Managing these 3 active matters requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistency while respecting the unique requirements of each examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 1 | 42.2% | +41.7% |
| ATTEL, NINA KAY | 1 | 41.4% | +27.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18093925 | WASTE CONTAINER | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 54d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18105402 | STORAGE BOX | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 12d |
| 18093925 | WASTE CONTAINER | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 54d |
| 18073767 | Shipping Box | ATTEL, NINA KAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18105402 | STORAGE BOX | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18093925 | WASTE CONTAINER | BALDRIGHI, ERIC C | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18073767 | Shipping Box | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
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