Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guala Dispensing S P A currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
The distribution of the workload across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed in different specialized environments. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution experience is not consolidated. Each examiner, including MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH with 1 pending office action, will apply their own interpretation of the prior art and patentability standards.
Practitioners should prepare for separate examiner interactions, as the 2 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single individual. The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a range of technical subject matter. With the workload assigned to multiple individuals, the portfolio requires a case-by-case approach rather than a unified examiner strategy.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 1 | 95.3% | +5.3% |
| ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | 1 | 68.3% | +12.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35520845 | Toothpaste dispenser with transparent cap | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572286 | TRIGGER DISPENSING DEVICE | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2923 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35520845 | Toothpaste dispenser with transparent cap | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 2923 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18572286 | TRIGGER DISPENSING DEVICE | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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