Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prinoth S P A operates a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 4 pending office actions, indicating the level of ongoing activity at the patent office. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution results are not dependent on the perspective of 1 examiner.
The prosecution activity for this portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, showing technical breadth within the mechanical engineering field. Abigail R Hymel is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the examiner pool. Each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the pending office actions, including the busiest examiner identified in the data.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | 1 | 82.8% | +19.8% |
| ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | 1 | 81.1% | +20.7% |
| LEE, MATTHEW D | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
| TSUI, WILSON W | 1 | 62.1% | +56.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955112 | REFUELING STATION AND METHOD TO REFUEL A CRAWLER VEHICLE WITH HYDROGEN | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075352 | HYDROGEN-POWERED TRACKED VEHICLE | HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | — |
| 18886619 | CRAWLER VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD TO CONTROL SAID CRAWLER VEHICLE | LEE, MATTHEW D | — |
| 18080396 | WINCH ASSEMBLY FOR ASSISTING THE MOVEMENT OF A TRACKED VEHICLE AND RELATIVE CONTROL METHOD | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075352 | HYDROGEN-POWERED TRACKED VEHICLE | HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | — |
| 18955112 | REFUELING STATION AND METHOD TO REFUEL A CRAWLER VEHICLE WITH HYDROGEN | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | — |
| 18080396 | WINCH ASSEMBLY FOR ASSISTING THE MOVEMENT OF A TRACKED VEHICLE AND RELATIVE CONTROL METHOD | TSUI, WILSON W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075352 | HYDROGEN-POWERED TRACKED VEHICLE | HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18955112 | REFUELING STATION AND METHOD TO REFUEL A CRAWLER VEHICLE WITH HYDROGEN | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18886619 | CRAWLER VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD TO CONTROL SAID CRAWLER VEHICLE | LEE, MATTHEW D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18080396 | WINCH ASSEMBLY FOR ASSISTING THE MOVEMENT OF A TRACKED VEHICLE AND RELATIVE CONTROL METHOD | TSUI, WILSON W | 2172 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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