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
Prostalund AB operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, suggesting a focused approach to its current intellectual property filings. The portfolio is also contained within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's innovations fall under a specific technical classification. This concentration simplifies the prosecution process by requiring adherence to a single set of art unit standards. This focused strategy allows the company to concentrate its resources on a single active matter.
The busiest examiner for Prostalund AB is DARB, HAMZA A., who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this is the only pending action in the portfolio, DARB, HAMZA A. is the sole individual reviewing the company's current work at the USPTO. For practitioners, this means that the success of the current application is tied to the specific feedback and preferences of this examiner. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a streamlined prosecution strategy for the company's medical device technologies. Understanding the specific examination history of DARB, HAMZA A. is critical for navigating this single active matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387511 | KIT AND METHOD INTENDED FOR PROSTATE SURGERY | DARB, HAMZA A. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18387511 | KIT AND METHOD INTENDED FOR PROSTATE SURGERY | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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