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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nt Tool Corporation is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Bayan Salone, within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution landscape where only one matter is currently active.
Bayan Salone is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the entire current workload for the company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to a single point of contact. The company must address the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner to resolve its 1 pending office action. This concentrated activity allows the company to focus its resources on a single regulatory challenge within 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALONE, BAYAN | 1 | 76.2% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683566 | TOOL HOLDER AND TURRET | SALONE, BAYAN | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683566 | TOOL HOLDER AND TURRET | SALONE, BAYAN | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18683566 | TOOL HOLDER AND TURRET | SALONE, BAYAN | 3726 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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