Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Manufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's immediate prosecution risk. The activity is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the pending application.
The busiest examiner, STEPHENS, MATTHEW, is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this 1 pending action represents the company's current pending workload, the prosecution strategy is dependent on the interactions with this specific examiner. This focus allows the applicant to tailor their arguments to the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.5% | +22.6% |
| COLLINS, JASON M | 1 | 74.8% | +13.0% |
| KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | 1 | 69.8% | +22.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | — |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19130031 | LENGTH-ADJUSTABLE LINK FOR A BRACELET | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19107714 | ATTACHMENT MEMBER FOR CONNECTING A WRIST STRAP TO A WATCH CASE | COLLINS, JASON M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18870549 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT, AND CORRESPONDING CLOCKWORK MOVEMENT AND TIMEPIECE | KAYES, SEAN PHILLIP | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
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