Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Makeblock Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical scope. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions indicates that there is no concentration of work under any single official.
ISKRA, JOSEPH W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. The concentration in only 2 distinct art units suggests that the company 5 pending actions are technically similar, even though they are being reviewed by 5 different individuals. Managing 5 pending office actions with 5 distinct examiners across 2 art units requires the company to be prepared for a range of individual perspectives. Practitioners should ensure that the prosecution of these 5 actions remains consistent despite the lack of examiner overlap.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 74.8% | +20.3% |
| XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 1 | 82.9% | +17.8% |
| PHAN, MINH Q | 1 | 75.8% | -4.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950927 | PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING SYSTEM | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982769 | METHOD OF MEASURING MACHINED REGION, NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18943034 | DISTANCE DETECTOR, PROCESSING HEAD AND PROCESSING DEVICE | PHAN, MINH Q | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19353669 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING METHOD, LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 15d |
| 19329764 | LASER MODULE AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 18982769 | METHOD OF MEASURING MACHINED REGION, NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18950927 | PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING SYSTEM | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353669 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING METHOD, LASER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19329764 | LASER MODULE AND LASER PROCESSING DEVICE | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 18982769 | METHOD OF MEASURING MACHINED REGION, NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18950927 | PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING SYSTEM | XING, CHRISTINA ILONA | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18943034 | DISTANCE DETECTOR, PROCESSING HEAD AND PROCESSING DEVICE | PHAN, MINH Q | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
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