Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Euroteknika operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 2 pending office actions currently in progress. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical field is narrow enough to be contained in 1 art unit, the specific applications are being reviewed by different individuals, potentially leading to different examination styles within the same administrative group.
The busiest examiner identified is SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is split between the 2 examiners involved. The presence of 1 distinct art unit implies a unified technical focus for the company's current mechanical engineering and medical device filings. Practitioners must navigate the preferences of 2 distinct examiners while maintaining a consistent argument for the single art unit involved. This profile indicates a need for coordination across different examiner interactions to ensure portfolio consistency.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 47.0% | +38.2% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.4% | +50.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16624847 | ASSEMBLY FOR DENTAL RESTORATION | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 30d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16493398 | DENTAL RESTORATION METHOD | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 43d overdue |
| 16624847 | ASSEMBLY FOR DENTAL RESTORATION | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16624847 | ASSEMBLY FOR DENTAL RESTORATION | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
| 16493398 | DENTAL RESTORATION METHOD | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2019 |
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