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
Hiba Pictet has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. Serkan Akar is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing this pending matter. The focused nature of this portfolio means that prosecution strategy is currently tied to a single point of contact at the USPTO.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope remains narrow. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific requirements of Serkan Akar as they navigate the 1 pending office action. This concentration allows for a targeted legal approach, as there are no other pending office actions or examiners to consider. The company's current standing in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is defined by this single interaction with 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKAR, SERKAN | 1 | 66.0% | +33.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832278 | MEDICAL SYSTEM AND EMTHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A PUNCTURE POINT | AKAR, SERKAN | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832278 | MEDICAL SYSTEM AND EMTHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A PUNCTURE POINT | AKAR, SERKAN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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