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
Mr Robert Ferretti currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MAI, TRI M is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. This represents a highly centralized prosecution effort focused on one specific examiner and technical area.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution experience is entirely defined by this single interaction. This concentrated focus suggests that the 1 pending office action is the primary concern for the portfolio at this time. Practitioners must tailor their approach to the specific preferences of MAI, TRI M, as there are no other examiners involved in the company's current pending workload. This singular engagement within 1 distinct art unit ensures a very narrow technical review process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI, TRI M | 1 | 36.3% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081333 | LUGGAGE WITH MOVABLE PARTITION | MAI, TRI M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081333 | LUGGAGE WITH MOVABLE PARTITION | MAI, TRI M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081333 | LUGGAGE WITH MOVABLE PARTITION | MAI, TRI M | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
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