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
Hobot Technology Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are contained within 1 distinct art unit. Jon Michael Hegemier is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action.
The use of 1 distinct art unit for both pending actions indicates a focused technical scope for the current prosecution. While 2 distinct examiners are involved, the shared art unit may lead to similar prior art being cited across the portfolio. With Jon Michael Hegemier and the second examiner each handling 1 action, the company's immediate outcomes are split between two individual reviewers.
For the practitioner, this concentration in 1 art unit allows for a more streamlined technical strategy. Insights from one examiner's office action can be used to anticipate issues in the other case. The challenge lies in addressing the 2 different examiners who, despite being in the same unit, may have different perspectives on the 2 pending actions.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 1 | — | — |
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.6% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669057 | WINDOW CLEANING MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669036 | WINDOW CLEANING MACHINE | HUANG, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669057 | WINDOW CLEANING MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18669036 | WINDOW CLEANING MACHINE | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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