Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Insa Lyon has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a variety of technical classifications for the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, so each action is being reviewed by a different individual. This decentralized structure requires the company to manage 2 unique sets of examiner expectations simultaneously.
Webeshet Mengesha is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions across 2 distinct art units, the workload is completely decentralized. This suggests that practitioners must manage different examiner expectations and art unit standards for each of the company's active cases. The lack of concentration across examiners and art units means that a successful strategy in one case may not necessarily translate to the other. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units to ensure that both pending office actions are handled effectively. This diversity in prosecution requires a flexible and case-specific approach to ensure the best possible outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844640 | REGENERATOR OF TEMPERATURE, HEAT PUMP INCLUDING SUCH A REGENERATOR AND METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844640 | REGENERATOR OF TEMPERATURE, HEAT PUMP INCLUDING SUCH A REGENERATOR AND METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844640 | REGENERATOR OF TEMPERATURE, HEAT PUMP INCLUDING SUCH A REGENERATOR AND METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18265120 | METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING PEF | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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