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
Nana Products LLC manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active case is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow prosecution footprint at the present time. This level of concentration suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or medical advancement. The status of the pending office action is a central factor in the company's immediate patent strategy.
The busiest examiner for the company is SIPPEL, RACHEL T, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this official oversees the pending workload, the portfolio's results depend on the specific feedback from this individual. For a practitioner, reviewing the examiner's past actions and preferred arguments is vital for advancing the case. The outcome in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area will be determined by how well the company meets the standards of this specific official. Establishing a clear line of communication with the examiner may help resolve the active matter more efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 1 | 52.4% | +58.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001288 | HIGH QUALITY MASK | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18001288 | HIGH QUALITY MASK | SIPPEL, RACHEL T | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
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