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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
I R C A S P A Industria Resistenze Corazzate E Affini currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one active application. However, both of these matters are contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a shared technical classification for the company's mechanical innovations. The busiest examiner for the company is TRAN, THIEN S, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
While the company must manage the perspectives of distinct examiners, the fact that they both operate within 1 distinct art unit may provide some consistency in the overall administrative environment. This distribution requires the applicant to address separate sets of examiner feedback while remaining within a single technical division of the patent office. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to TRAN, THIEN S represents half of the 2 pending office actions total. This structure requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the unified standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.1% |
| AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 1 | 36.8% | +70.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577368 | HEATING DEVICE FOR A MACHINE FOR PREPARING HOT BEVERAGES | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577368 | HEATING DEVICE FOR A MACHINE FOR PREPARING HOT BEVERAGES | TRAN, THIEN S | — |
| 17629393 | ELECTRIC HEATER | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577368 | HEATING DEVICE FOR A MACHINE FOR PREPARING HOT BEVERAGES | TRAN, THIEN S | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 17629393 | ELECTRIC HEATER | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2022 |
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