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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fiskars Brands Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, VOLZ, ELIZABETH J, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This concentration shows that the company's current patent efforts are directed through 1 distinct examiner at the USPTO, making that individual's specific review style a critical factor for the applicant.
The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the entirety of the company's active legal interaction is managed by VOLZ, ELIZABETH J. This focused profile suggests a specific point of contact for the company's current intellectual property strategy within its designated technology area. Because there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution environment is centralized, with no diversification of examiner or art unit risk across its active matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980372 | COOKWARE WITH REMOVABLE HANDLE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980372 | COOKWARE WITH REMOVABLE HANDLE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18980372 | COOKWARE WITH REMOVABLE HANDLE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
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