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
La Boulangere has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TAWFIK, SAMEH, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's pending activity is limited to a single point of interaction, indicating a very focused prosecution phase for the company's current filings.
A practitioner handling this case must focus on the specific examination patterns of TAWFIK, SAMEH, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative paths to allowance. The busiest examiner's workload of 1 pending action matches the total volume of the portfolio's current activity. This lack of diversification across examiners or art units means that any challenges encountered during the prosecution of this single action cannot be mitigated by progress in other cases. The strategy must be precisely aligned with the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Success in this matter is the sole focus of the current prosecution effort, requiring a highly targeted approach to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746636 | COMPOSITION OF (CO) POLYESTERS, SINGLE-LAYER FILM AND USE FOR PACKAGING BAG | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18746636 | COMPOSITION OF (CO) POLYESTERS, SINGLE-LAYER FILM AND USE FOR PACKAGING BAG | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLa Boulangere has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sameh Tawfik has the most, with 1 of La Boulangere's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
