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
Encelia Hair LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and limited engagement with the USPTO at this time, with no active matters falling outside this single technical category. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed by a specialized group focused on medical and mechanical innovations. This 1 distinct examiner arrangement means that the company's current legal efforts are highly concentrated.
The busiest examiner, GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner manages the 1 pending office action total for the company, consolidating all active matters under a single person's review. With 1 busiest examiner pending office action, this individual oversees the full scope of the company's current prosecution. This arrangement means that the company's patent strategy is currently focused on a single point of interaction within the examination corps. The company's immediate intellectual property goals are therefore entirely subject to the findings and requirements of GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18414179 | FLEXIBLE HAIR PIECE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 31d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18414179 | FLEXIBLE HAIR PIECE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18414179 | FLEXIBLE HAIR PIECE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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