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
Haloeasy International Trading Co. Limited is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner. The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current prosecution footprint is focused on a single technical matter. Such a concentrated structure allows for a very specific legal strategy without the need to coordinate across different technical classifications or multiple examiner preferences.
CHRISTINE J SKUBINNA is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only a pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner holds the entirety of the active workload. For this company, the prosecution process is currently centralized, requiring engagement with only one specific examiner in the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus their efforts on this matter, as it represents the full extent of the company's current activity. The outcome of this proceeding will define the company's immediate patent position in the mechanical engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.7% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923997 | TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET HOLDER AND TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18923997 | TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET HOLDER AND TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18923997 | TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET HOLDER AND TOILET CLEANING UTENSIL SET | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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