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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Epsilon Composite currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, AFZALI, SARANG, within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration of the company's active prosecution under this individual and within a specific technical group indicates a focused review process for the current application.
The identified busiest examiner currently oversees the pending office action. Since there is only a single pending office action in total, AFZALI, SARANG is responsible for the entire active workload for the company. This point of contact within the art unit means that the company's immediate patent strategy is dependent on the review of this specific individual.
For practitioners, the focus on a single examiner and art unit simplifies the coordination of the portfolio but also increases the impact of this individual's tendencies. Understanding the examination patterns of AFZALI, SARANG will be crucial for navigating the pending office action successfully. The company's current engagement with the patent office is entirely defined by this active matter in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860536 | END PIECE FOR A PROFILED PART AND IN PARTICULAR FOR A GUIDE ROLLER | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860536 | END PIECE FOR A PROFILED PART AND IN PARTICULAR FOR A GUIDE ROLLER | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
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