Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mapal Fabrik Für Präzisionswerkzeuge Dr Kress Kg has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated independently by different reviewers in separate administrative divisions. The use of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions indicates a diverse technical scope within the broader technology area.
MICHAEL WAYNE HOTCHKISS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since the total pending office actions is 2 and the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is divided between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution prevents any 1 examiner or art unit from controlling the entirety of the company's current prosecution pipeline. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific expectations of 2 different examiners across 2 separate administrative groups in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
| SINGH, SUNIL K | 1 | 39.0% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579059 | TOOL | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579059 | TOOL | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| 17725159 | TOOL PART AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TOOL PART OF THIS KIND | SINGH, SUNIL K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579059 | TOOL | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17725159 | TOOL PART AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TOOL PART OF THIS KIND | SINGH, SUNIL K | 3722 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2022 |
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