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
Mccloskey International Limited is currently navigating the patent process within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current legal focus is limited to a mechanical or medical niche. Such a narrow distribution of pending actions often reflects a targeted approach to protecting core mechanical innovations.
ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. This action accounts for the total 1 pending office action for the company, meaning all current examiner interactions are consolidated. Practitioners can monitor this specific examiner relationship to understand the immediate trajectory of the company's pending intellectual property. The fact that the workload is limited to the identified examiner and art unit suggests that the company's current mechanical engineering filings are highly specialized.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606574 | CONTINUOUS FEED CONE CRUSHER PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 49d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606574 | CONTINUOUS FEED CONE CRUSHER PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 49d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606574 | CONTINUOUS FEED CONE CRUSHER PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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