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
Natural Breast Co. Ltd. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated technical focus, as all current activity is occurring within the same specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed equally. Both examiners are operating within the same single art unit, which may lead to consistent examination standards for the company's filings. However, the use of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate two separate perspectives on its technology. This balanced distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused prosecution strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276890 | MAMMARY PROSTHESIS AND ARTIFICIAL NIPPLE | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18276879 | ARTIFICIAL BREAST AND SILICONE RUBBER BODY | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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