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
Pangaea Holdings Inc. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE accounts for the entirety of the company's active office action workload.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current prosecution profile is streamlined. The 1 distinct art unit indicates a focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE is the only examiner involved, the outcome of the 1 pending office action is subject to a single individual's interpretation of the claims.
Practitioners should note that the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the current prosecution environment. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit structure allows for a direct response strategy. The 1 pending office action is the focus of the company's current efforts to secure patent rights in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674228 | SLEEVE FOR HAND TRIMMER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 97d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674228 | SLEEVE FOR HAND TRIMMER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18674228 | SLEEVE FOR HAND TRIMMER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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