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
Packable B V currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is localized in a specific art unit, suggesting a specialized focus for the company's current patent activities. The matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, ANDREW M TECCO, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action currently under review.
With the entire pending workload concentrated in the hands of an individual examiner, the company's success depends on a clear understanding of this individual's specific examination criteria. This high level of concentration within a specific art unit reduces the administrative complexity of the portfolio but places significant weight on the outcome of this individual case. ANDREW M TECCO's perspective will be the primary influence on the company's immediate patent strategy.
The presence of the pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area indicates a targeted approach to intellectual property. Because there are no other pending matters distributed across the USPTO, the company can focus its resources on addressing the specific concerns raised in this action. This localized prosecution profile is typical for companies with a narrow technical focus or those in the early stages of building a portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TECCO, ANDREW M | 1 | 65.4% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065179 | Cardboard Tray for Use in Method for Top Sealing a Cardboard Tray | TECCO, ANDREW M | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065179 | Cardboard Tray for Use in Method for Top Sealing a Cardboard Tray | TECCO, ANDREW M | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065179 | Cardboard Tray for Use in Method for Top Sealing a Cardboard Tray | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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