Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnecomp Corporation is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 3 actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning that every active case is under the review of a different official. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution results are subject to the individual interpretations of a diverse group of examiners rather than a single point of contact.
The company's filings are situated within 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the pending office actions are somewhat concentrated in terms of administrative oversight. While there are the distinct examiners involved, the fact that they operate within 2 distinct art units may lead to some consistency in the prior art or legal standards applied to the applications. Practitioners should be prepared for the specific requirements of these different units.
KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This 1 pending action represents the maximum workload for any single examiner within the company's total actions. The reliance on the 3 distinct examiners across the 2 distinct art units highlights a prosecution landscape where individual examiner interactions are the primary focus.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 1 | 80.9% | +18.2% |
| KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 1 | 70.0% | +50.0% |
| CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 1 | 63.0% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19288651 | Gimbal Strut Configuration With A No Mid Strut Design | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 24d overdue |
| 16669251 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS HAVING WRAP-AROUND ELECTRODES | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 30d |
| 19288651 | Gimbal Strut Configuration With A No Mid Strut Design | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2688 | 2 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288651 | Gimbal Strut Configuration With A No Mid Strut Design | KLIMOWICZ, WILLIAM JOSEPH | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19184880 | Head Gimbal Assembly With Gimbal Tethers For Hard Disk Drive Device | KIM, MICHELLE JINJU | 2688 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 16669251 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS HAVING WRAP-AROUND ELECTRODES | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Oct 30, 2019 |
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