Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hr Pharmaceuticals Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. POON, ROBERT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 actions in 2 different art units suggests a varied technical focus in the current prosecution.
The pending office actions are both within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. By using 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company's 2 pending office actions are being reviewed independently. POON, ROBERT is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that each action is assigned to a different examiner in a different art unit. This lack of concentration suggests that the company's current patenting efforts involve different mechanical or medical specialties within the broader technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
| BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 1 | 50.0% | +54.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664820 | Tray Assembly | POON, ROBERT | 14d |
| 18653614 | Collection Assembly | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664820 | Tray Assembly | POON, ROBERT | 14d |
| 18653614 | Collection Assembly | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18664820 | Tray Assembly | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18653614 | Collection Assembly | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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