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
Norm Izmir Civata Sanayi Ticaret Anonim Sirketi is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's current patent filings. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the review process for the pending application. Such concentration suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific mechanical advancement rather than a broad array of diverse innovations.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KELLER, BRIAN D, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the active portfolio, the company's prosecution strategy is tailored to the specific feedback of this individual. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current intellectual property is concentrated within a single specialized field of mechanical engineering. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution outcome will likely hinge on establishing a consistent understanding with this single examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide alternative pathways for patent allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLER, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.6% | +37.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283222 | LIGHTWEIGHT FASTENER AND CUSTOMIZED DRIVE APPARATUS THEREOF | KELLER, BRIAN D | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283222 | LIGHTWEIGHT FASTENER AND CUSTOMIZED DRIVE APPARATUS THEREOF | KELLER, BRIAN D | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283222 | LIGHTWEIGHT FASTENER AND CUSTOMIZED DRIVE APPARATUS THEREOF | KELLER, BRIAN D | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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