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
Makalot Industrial Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Examiner BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. The company's current activity involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a singular focus in their mechanical engineering developments.
The outcome of this pending action will be determined by the specific examination style of this official. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend entirely on the individual discretion of BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE. This lack of examiner diversity means the prosecution strategy must be precisely tailored to the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's research and development in this area is highly specialized. Practitioners should focus on establishing a clear dialogue with this examiner to advance the application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18616846 | MOISTURE-ABSORBING DRY ELECTRODE AND SMART CLOTHING | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18616846 | MOISTURE-ABSORBING DRY ELECTRODE AND SMART CLOTHING | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
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