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
Hs Products Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Michael Wayne Hotchkiss. The prosecution is being conducted within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the application. Michael Wayne Hotchkiss is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action.
The current data shows a focused prosecution profile with only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is being reviewed by a specialized group within the patent office. This profile represents a single active matter, requiring focused attention on the 1 examiner responsible for the busiest pending case. No other pending actions or examiners are currently involved in the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841234 | SPRING HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841234 | SPRING HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHOD | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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