Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hong Ann Tool Industries Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions focused within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is currently under the review of a different individual. All 3 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a consistent technical focus for the company's current patent filings despite the involvement of multiple examiners.
The workload is distributed among the assigned staff such that the busiest examiner, FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR, is responsible for 1 pending action. This distribution reflects a portfolio where prosecution efforts are centralized in 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a more unified understanding of the technical standards being applied, even though 3 distinct examiners are involved. The presence of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners means that each case is receiving an individual assessment within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | 1 | 74.0% | +14.3% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187007 | SCRAPER WITH COVER | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | — |
| 18950701 | ADJUSTABLE ANGLE TOOL | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19187007 | SCRAPER WITH COVER | FLORES SANCHEZ, OMAR | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18950701 | ADJUSTABLE ANGLE TOOL | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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