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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Microtecnica S R L has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's mechanical engineering filings are being reviewed across different specialized groups within the patent office. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adapted to the specific requirements and nuances of 2 distinct art units, rather than relying on a single administrative path.
ARUNDALE, ROBERT K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles one of the 2 pending office actions currently active. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, each pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. This structure shows a diverse prosecution landscape for the portfolio, where the outcomes are independent of one another. Practitioners should prepare for potentially different interpretations of mechanical engineering concepts across these separate 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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
| WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.7% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332266 | ACTUATOR | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 60d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332266 | ACTUATOR | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 60d overdue |
| 18466943 | PRESSURE REGULATION SYSTEMS AND VALVES | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18466943 | PRESSURE REGULATION SYSTEMS AND VALVES | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18332266 | ACTUATOR | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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