Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Iscar Ltd. is currently managing 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. RUFO, RYAN C is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 of the pending actions.
The concentration of those matters under RUFO, RYAN C suggests that this examiner has a notable impact on the portfolio's current outcomes. However, the use of 4 distinct examiners for the matters still provides a good degree of decentralization. The involvement of only those art units indicates that the company's innovations are focused on specific technical areas within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
Practitioners should monitor the matters under RUFO, RYAN C for potential trends in examiner feedback. The examiners will likely provide a variety of perspectives, even within the units. This structure requires a strategy that is both focused on the busiest examiner's requirements and flexible enough to address the feedback from the other examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFO, RYAN C | 2 | 58.9% | +40.8% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
| RAMOS, NICOLE N | 1 | 81.4% | +9.9% |
| DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 1 | 69.8% | +33.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325732 | TOOL HOLDER HAVING COUPLING HOLE AND LOCKING THROUGH BORE AND ROTARY CUTTING TOOL PROVIDED WITH TOOL HOLDER | RUFO, RYAN C | 24d overdue |
| 18460724 | THREAD MILLING TOOL AND METHOD FOR MACHINING THREADS | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3d overdue |
| 18450235 | HEAD REPLACEABLE CUTTING TOOL AND FASTENING PROJECTION PORTION THEREOF | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 33d |
| 18439937 | FOUR-WAY INDEXABLE CUTTING INSERT AND CUTTING TOOL | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 18455271 | INSERT ADAPTOR FOR PARTING OFF | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325732 | TOOL HOLDER HAVING COUPLING HOLE AND LOCKING THROUGH BORE AND ROTARY CUTTING TOOL PROVIDED WITH TOOL HOLDER | RUFO, RYAN C | 24d overdue |
| 18450235 | HEAD REPLACEABLE CUTTING TOOL AND FASTENING PROJECTION PORTION THEREOF | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 33d |
| 18439937 | FOUR-WAY INDEXABLE CUTTING INSERT AND CUTTING TOOL | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 18455271 | INSERT ADAPTOR FOR PARTING OFF | RUFO, RYAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 3 |
| 3726 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439937 | FOUR-WAY INDEXABLE CUTTING INSERT AND CUTTING TOOL | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18460724 | THREAD MILLING TOOL AND METHOD FOR MACHINING THREADS | RAMOS, NICOLE N | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18455271 | INSERT ADAPTOR FOR PARTING OFF | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18450235 | HEAD REPLACEABLE CUTTING TOOL AND FASTENING PROJECTION PORTION THEREOF | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 3726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18325732 | TOOL HOLDER HAVING COUPLING HOLE AND LOCKING THROUGH BORE AND ROTARY CUTTING TOOL PROVIDED WITH TOOL HOLDER | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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