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
Hpf S R L operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution activity is currently limited to 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is distributed to 1 distinct examiner. The matter is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular focus in the current examination phase. SIPP, AMY R. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
This 1 busiest examiner pending office action is the only active office action reported for the company. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution path is highly concentrated. Practitioners can expect a consistent examination experience, as the company is not currently dealing with the varying requirements of multiple distinct examiners. The success of the portfolio's current phase depends on the interaction with this 1 distinct examiner and the specific technical standards of their assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280139 | SURGICAL TOOL AND CORRESPONDING PRODUCTION METHOD | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280139 | SURGICAL TOOL AND CORRESPONDING PRODUCTION METHOD | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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