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
Mahmoud Alm El Din Hafez maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused prosecution footprint. The concentration of work suggests that the legal strategy is currently tied to a specific technical niche within the broader engineering field.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is BATES, DAVID W, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is the only examiner currently reviewing the portfolio, as evidenced by the 1 distinct examiner count. Practitioners can focus their resources on this 1 point of contact at the USPTO. The alignment of the 1 distinct art unit with the busiest examiner indicates a streamlined path for this specific pending matter.
With only 1 pending office action in the pipeline, the portfolio's current activity level is low. The fact that BATES, DAVID W holds the pending action means that the immediate future of the portfolio's growth depends entirely on this specific interaction. This 1 focus allows for a highly tailored approach to responding to USPTO inquiries without the complexity of managing disparate examiner preferences across multiple art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021109 | PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT (PSI) METHOD & DEVICE FOR PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF FRACTURES | BATES, DAVID W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021109 | PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT (PSI) METHOD & DEVICE FOR PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF FRACTURES | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18021109 | PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT (PSI) METHOD & DEVICE FOR PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF FRACTURES | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMahmoud Alm El Din Hafez has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David W Bates has the most, with 1 of Mahmoud Alm El Din Hafez's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.