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
Myc Packaging Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner. The prosecution is occurring within a sole art unit, indicating a focused administrative track for the company's current patent application. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate legal strategy is tied to a specific technical niche.
GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total count of pending office actions is the amount already stated, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload. This creates a direct and singular relationship between the company and the examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination patterns of GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES.
For practitioners, the presence of a distinct examiner and a sole art unit means that the prosecution strategy can be highly tailored. The 1 pending office action represents the only current hurdle in the company's USPTO engagement. Success in this active matter will depend on navigating the specific requirements of the art unit and the individual examiner's standards. However, this lack of diversification means the entire current portfolio is subject to the standards of a single administrative group.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 1 | 28.3% | +47.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828608 | APPLICATOR HEAD FOR APPLYING A COSMETIC PRODUCT | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 59d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828608 | APPLICATOR HEAD FOR APPLYING A COSMETIC PRODUCT | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18828608 | APPLICATOR HEAD FOR APPLYING A COSMETIC PRODUCT | GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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