Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Melissa & Doug LLC manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but are contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are doing so under the same art unit's specific guidelines. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active workload for the company.
HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. Each of the 2 distinct examiners is reviewing a single application within the 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration in 1 distinct art unit for the 2 pending office actions suggests a unified technical category for the company's current filings. Practitioners should prepare for consistent prior art applications across both pending matters. Managing 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit allows for a more predictable prosecution strategy than if the actions were spread across multiple art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 1 | 46.8% | +30.6% |
| STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1 | 39.2% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696641 | TOY SPINNING TOPS AND LAUNCHING DEVICES | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 60d overdue |
| 18441880 | ASSEMBLY TOY AND DECORATIVE CONNECTOR FOR AN ASSEMBLY TOY | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18696641 | TOY SPINNING TOPS AND LAUNCHING DEVICES | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 3711 | §112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18441880 | ASSEMBLY TOY AND DECORATIVE CONNECTOR FOR AN ASSEMBLY TOY | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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