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
Foldstar Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This indicates a specific and concentrated point of contact with the USPTO for the company's current patenting activities.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TAWFIK, SAMEH, who is handling 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions for Foldstar Inc. is also the same, TAWFIK, SAMEH is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload. The advancement of the company's intellectual property depends on the review process of this specific examiner.
For practitioners, the Foldstar Inc. profile shows a lack of diversification across multiple examiners or art units. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is specialized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. With TAWFIK, SAMEH managing the only active action, the prosecution strategy must be precisely tailored to the requirements of this examiner and their art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886881 | ARTICULATING DIE AND FORMING PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886881 | ARTICULATING DIE AND FORMING PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
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