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
Opinel has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution activity is currently centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration is typical for portfolios focused on a specific mechanical or medical device technology that fits within a single regulatory category at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, AYALA, FERNANDO A, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload, making the examiner's individual perspective the most influential factor in the portfolio's immediate future. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not have to navigate the differing procedural expectations of multiple units.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on the 1 pending office action and the specific examination habits of AYALA, FERNANDO A, to ensure a smooth prosecution process. Understanding the examiner's typical stance on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims can help in drafting a more effective response. Resolving the 1 pending office action with this 1 examiner is the primary goal for the current prosecution cycle.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALA, FERNANDO A | 1 | 53.6% | +26.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17246851 | KNIFE WITH SOUND EMITTING MEANS USING THE FLOW OF AIR | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17246851 | KNIFE WITH SOUND EMITTING MEANS USING THE FLOW OF AIR | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 03, 2021 |
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