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
Hacanoka GmbH maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, showing that the company's active matters are not diversified across different examination groups. This focus allows for a targeted approach to the specific requirements of the medical device sector.
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS holds the busiest examiner pending office action. As the only examiner currently reviewing the company's filings, the resolution of the pending workload depends on addressing the specific feedback from this individual. Practitioners should analyze this examiner's past actions to better understand the likely requirements for securing patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284445 | METHOD OF MAKING METAL FIBERS, IN PARTICULAR OF STEEL | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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