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
Eversys Holding SA maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution activity is currently restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a singular point of contact within the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This concentration means that the immediate success of the portfolio relies on the evaluation of a single technical reviewer rather than a diverse panel of experts.
KHLOK, BONITA serves as the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this examiner is the only one assigned to the company's active matters, their specific examination style and history will be the primary factor in the prosecution timeline. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the current legal efforts are focused on a specific subset of medical or mechanical technologies without broader cross-disciplinary involvement at this time. Managing 1 pending office action with a single examiner allows for a direct line of communication but limits the breadth of the company's current patent office interactions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 49.1% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17632499 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND FOAMING A LIQUID, IN PARTICULAR A BEVERAGE | KHLOK, BONITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17632499 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND FOAMING A LIQUID, IN PARTICULAR A BEVERAGE | KHLOK, BONITA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17632499 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND FOAMING A LIQUID, IN PARTICULAR A BEVERAGE | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
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