Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Netafim Ltd. manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions being handled by 3 distinct examiners. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technological variety within the mechanical engineering field. The use of multiple examiners suggests that the patent office is reviewing different aspects of the company's technology simultaneously.
NORRIS, CLAIRE A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, with each examiner, including NORRIS, CLAIRE A, handling a single action. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests the company's innovations span multiple specialized examination groups. For a practitioner, this means coordinating across different art units while dealing with a one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 65.8% | +28.0% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| GILES, EBONI N | 1 | 63.3% | +8.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747515 | SCREEN FILTER SUCTION NOZZLE | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18540993 | STRIP IRRIGATION SPRINKLER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747515 | SCREEN FILTER SUCTION NOZZLE | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18540993 | STRIP IRRIGATION SPRINKLER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747515 | SCREEN FILTER SUCTION NOZZLE | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18540993 | STRIP IRRIGATION SPRINKLER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 17565899 | FLUID DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HAVING A MULTI-HOP CONTROL AND/OR COMMUNICATION NETWORK ASSOCIATED THEREWITH | GILES, EBONI N | 2622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
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