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
Fabdesigns Inc. has 1 pending office action concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is highly focused, involving only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This concentration means the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a single point of contact and a specific technical examination group. Such a narrow focus allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single set of examiner preferences and art unit guidelines without the need to manage conflicting requirements from multiple officials.
HUANG, GRACE serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling the 1 pending office action currently on record. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the outcome of the pending matter depends entirely on the interpretation of this individual. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific procedural history and preferences of this single official within the designated 1 distinct art unit. The presence of a single pending matter suggests a low volume of current prosecution activity, making the relationship with the assigned examiner the primary factor in the company's immediate patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16405435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A POLYMER REINFORCING FIBER FOOTWEAR UPPER | HUANG, GRACE | 112d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16405435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A POLYMER REINFORCING FIBER FOOTWEAR UPPER | HUANG, GRACE | 112d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16405435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNITTING A POLYMER REINFORCING FIBER FOOTWEAR UPPER | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2019 |
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