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
Mr Fill Holding B V is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each examiner is reviewing 1 matter. The company's prosecution activity is focused within 1 distinct art unit.
KAPLAN, HAL IRA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action constitutes 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. The use of 1 distinct art unit for both pending actions suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are technically similar. This concentration may allow for a unified approach to addressing the 2 pending office actions across the 2 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit for consistent examination trends that may affect both pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAPLAN, HAL IRA | 1 | 85.9% | +9.4% |
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727254 | REFUSE COLLECTION SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT THEREFOR, AND METHOD | KAPLAN, HAL IRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18564775 | HANDLING OF EMPTY RETURNABLE BEVERAGE CONTAINERS BY MEANS OF A BATTERY-POWERED DEVICE | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727254 | REFUSE COLLECTION SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT THEREFOR, AND METHOD | KAPLAN, HAL IRA | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18564775 | HANDLING OF EMPTY RETURNABLE BEVERAGE CONTAINERS BY MEANS OF A BATTERY-POWERED DEVICE | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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