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
Maze Investment Group B V currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on one specific application. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the examination is taking place within a single technical group at the patent office, which allows for a targeted legal strategy.
The busiest examiner identified for the company is PAYER, HWEI-SIU C, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for all of the company's active prosecution. The fact that the distinct examiner is handling the pending office action in the distinct art unit means that the company's immediate results in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area are dependent on this single official. This concentration of the pending office action under the examiner simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the company only needs to monitor one examiner's behavior and one art unit's standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 1 | 73.9% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860932 | BOX CUTTER PRODUCTS AND RELATED METHODS | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860932 | BOX CUTTER PRODUCTS AND RELATED METHODS | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18860932 | BOX CUTTER PRODUCTS AND RELATED METHODS | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
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