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
F&P Precision Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific and focused prosecution effort within the mechanical engineering sector of the patent office, where the applicant can concentrate on a single set of technical requirements.
SEHN, MICHAEL L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution path is straightforward but dependent on this single examiner's review. The applicant's primary task is to address the specific technical concerns raised by this examiner to advance the pending application. By focusing on the 1 pending office action, the company can efficiently manage its resources and work toward a resolution with the 1 distinct examiner assigned to this medical device matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEHN, MICHAEL L | 1 | 81.1% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790314 | BASE STRUCTURE OF COOLING FAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SEHN, MICHAEL L | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790314 | BASE STRUCTURE OF COOLING FAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SEHN, MICHAEL L | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790314 | BASE STRUCTURE OF COOLING FAN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | SEHN, MICHAEL L | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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