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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foshan Lizhao Metal Products Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a highly specific and limited scope of current prosecution activity. The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a specialized technical niche for the company's current filings.
KOSANOVIC, HELENA is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending matter, the company's current success in the patent office depends on the outcome of this single action. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 distinct examiner to advance the portfolio. This single point of contact defines the current prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 1 | 45.0% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18346289 | GRAB | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18346289 | GRAB | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jul 03, 2023 |
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