Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
M I B S R L maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company is pursuing different technical aspects or applications within the medical and mechanical fields.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, each handling a portion of the workload. TAWFIK, SAMEH is identified as the busiest examiner, although they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners currently engaged with the company's filings.
With 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units, the company must manage multiple technical tracks. While TAWFIK, SAMEH manages 1 pending office action, another examiner handles the second. This distribution requires a strategy to address the specific feedback from both of the 2 distinct examiners involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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% | +31.2% |
| TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 1 | 78.8% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763662 | SECURITY CONTAINER CASSETTE FOR BANKNOTES OR VALUABLES FOR ATMS OR CASH MACHINES | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763662 | SECURITY CONTAINER CASSETTE FOR BANKNOTES OR VALUABLES FOR ATMS OR CASH MACHINES | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18756732 | CARD READER FOR ATMS, CASH MACHINES, AND SIMILAR DEVICES | TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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