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
Mekyat Pesquisa E Desenvolvimento Tecnologico Ltda has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This matter is being handled within a distinct art unit, reflecting a prosecution footprint in a single technical area. Because there is only a distinct examiner involved, the company's current patent strategy relies on a single point of interaction at the USPTO. This concentration means that the success of the current application is dependent on the feedback and standards of a specific art unit.
DAVID J WALCZAK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. This individual is responsible for the company's active prosecution. The presence of pending activity indicates the current scale of the portfolio management approach. With the distinct examiner and art unit, the prosecution process is focused. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific requirements of WALCZAK, as there are no other pending matters to manage across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering landscape.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885352 | FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER AND LID FOR FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885352 | FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER AND LID FOR FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18885352 | FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER AND LID FOR FLUID STORAGE AND DISPENSING CONTAINER | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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