Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hantover Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both matters are located in 1 distinct art unit. MICHALSKI, SEAN M is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's current prosecution is being handled by different individuals within a single technical group. The workload is split such that each examiner is responsible for a single action.
For a practitioner, this means that while the technical arguments may be similar across the 2 pending office actions, the negotiation style must be adapted for the distinct examiners. The concentration in the distinct art unit suggests that the examiners may be aware of each other's work, but the cases remain under separate individual review. There is no overlap in examiner assignments, so each matter proceeds independently. This requires managing two separate relationships for the 2 pending office actions. The focused nature of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area simplifies the technical breadth required for these interactions.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037000 | ROTARY KNIFE DEFLECTOR FOR DIRECTING TRIMMINGS | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — |
| 18913447 | ROTARY KNIFE BLADE WITH SEGMENTED RACE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037000 | ROTARY KNIFE DEFLECTOR FOR DIRECTING TRIMMINGS | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — |
| 18913447 | ROTARY KNIFE BLADE WITH SEGMENTED RACE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037000 | ROTARY KNIFE DEFLECTOR FOR DIRECTING TRIMMINGS | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18913447 | ROTARY KNIFE BLADE WITH SEGMENTED RACE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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