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
Infinex Holding GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is currently being examined by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution environment. This focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's active patent applications are technically specialized. Having 1 pending office action means the company has a single set of examiner comments to address, simplifying the management of its pending cases.
The busiest examiner, AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all active responses required by the portfolio at this time. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 means that AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. Since there are no other distinct examiners or art units involved, the company's prosecution strategy should be tailored specifically to the requirements of this 1 examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 1 | 36.8% | +70.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17884640 | ELECTRIC SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM AND A LAYING DEVICE FOR A HEATING CABLE OF THE ELECTRIC SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17884640 | ELECTRIC SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM AND A LAYING DEVICE FOR A HEATING CABLE OF THE ELECTRIC SURFACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM | AMIN, HAMZEH HICHAM | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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