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
Hefa Holding GmbH manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is currently assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a streamlined but highly concentrated prosecution environment. CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. The success of the company's current filing depends on the specific examination practices and legal interpretations of this individual official.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is being reviewed within a specific technical specialty of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. For the practitioner, this means that prosecution tactics must be precisely aligned with the norms of that specific unit. Since CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM is the only examiner currently handling a pending matter for Hefa Holding GmbH, their past behavior regarding prior art rejections and allowance trends is the most critical factor to consider.
With 1 pending office action, there is no internal data available to compare different examiner responses or art unit efficiencies. The practitioner should focus on establishing a productive dialogue with the assigned examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action efficiently. Because the portfolio is concentrated in a single art unit, understanding the specific local rules and preferences of that group will be essential for advancing the company's patent objectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL FOR CUTTING MACHINES OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL PARTS | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18044481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL FOR CUTTING MACHINES OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL PARTS | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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