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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
King'S Flair Innovative Marketing Limited operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Current records show 1 pending office action, which is the only active examination matter for the company. This workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a consolidated approach to the current prosecution cycle.
The prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit. TOICH, SARA KATHERINE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. With only a single action in total, the examiner's workload represents the full scope of the company's current interactions with the patent office.
This structure suggests a highly specific focus for the company's mechanical design efforts. A practitioner should prioritize a clear and concise technical narrative, as the assigned examiner is the sole evaluator of the company's innovative marketing-related mechanical innovations at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916628 | NOVEL FILTER MATERIAL, FACE MASK COMPRISING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 74d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916628 | NOVEL FILTER MATERIAL, FACE MASK COMPRISING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 74d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17916628 | NOVEL FILTER MATERIAL, FACE MASK COMPRISING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
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