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
Padmax Group AB has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, HORTON, ANDREW ALAN. As the only examiner with an active case, HORTON, ANDREW ALAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is currently active in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical scope.
With 1 pending office action in total, the company's immediate patent strategy is focused on a single application. HORTON, ANDREW ALAN is responsible for 1 pending action, which represents the entire active docket for the portfolio. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit allows for a targeted approach to the examination process. Practitioners should focus on addressing the specific requirements of this 1 pending action to advance the company's medical device and mechanical engineering innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.9% | +17.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686220 | BRUSH FOR MAINTENANCE OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PADEL TURFS | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686220 | BRUSH FOR MAINTENANCE OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PADEL TURFS | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686220 | BRUSH FOR MAINTENANCE OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PADEL TURFS | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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