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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio, focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending actions are both assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical concentration for the company's current filings. This focus allows the legal team to specialize their approach to the specific requirements and precedents of that 1 distinct art unit.
The prosecution process involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual. LEE, LAURA MICHELLE is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This distribution of work means that the company's active cases are receiving individualized attention from separate examiners within the same technical group.
For Ningbo Iclipper Electric Appliance Co. Ltd., the 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector are the primary focus of their current patenting activity. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit and 2 distinct examiners creates a concentrated examination environment. LEE, LAURA MICHELLE, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is a key figure in the company's efforts to secure its intellectual property rights.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.9% | +30.9% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237498 | CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 85d |
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919456 | ANTI-LOOSE MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER FIXED BLADE MOUNTING FRAME | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18237498 | CUTTER HEAD ASSEMBLY WITH GUIDE STRUCTURE AND WRENCH ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM OF ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTER | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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