Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Idemitsu Unitech Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. HELVEY, PETER N. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 pending actions.
This high level of concentration means that the entire pending workload is subject to the review of a single individual. For practitioners, this suggests that the prosecution strategy should be tailored specifically to the preferences and history of HELVEY, PETER N. The fact that all 2 pending office actions are in the same 1 distinct art unit indicates a very narrow technological focus for the company's current patent efforts.
Monitoring the examiner's feedback on one matter may provide direct insights into the likely outcome of the other. The resolution of these 2 pending office actions will be a critical factor in the company's overall intellectual property success. Practitioners should focus on meeting the specific standards of HELVEY, PETER N. to move the portfolio forward efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 2 | 54.6% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711353 | ZIPPER TAPE CONTAINER | HELVEY, PETER N. | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711353 | ZIPPER TAPE CONTAINER | HELVEY, PETER N. | 15d |
| 18707474 | ZIPPER TAPE AND CONTAINER EQUIPPED WITH ZIPPER TAPE | HELVEY, PETER N. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711353 | ZIPPER TAPE CONTAINER | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18707474 | ZIPPER TAPE AND CONTAINER EQUIPPED WITH ZIPPER TAPE | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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