Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ritmo S P A has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a perfectly decentralized prosecution landscape. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each matter is being treated as a unique technical and procedural challenge.
The busiest examiner for the company is PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. Because the workload is split evenly across 3 distinct examiners, no single individual has a dominant influence over the portfolio's progress. This distribution requires the company to maintain separate prosecution strategies tailored to the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit involved.
Practitioners should note that the 3 distinct art units represent a diverse technical range within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner reflects the current lack of consolidation in the company's patent pipeline. Navigating this environment involves addressing the nuances of three different examination groups simultaneously, with no overlap in personnel or administrative units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1 | 73.9% | +13.1% |
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.7% | +12.8% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.4% | +25.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314636 | CONTAINER FOR HEATING PLATES FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 11d overdue |
| 18301903 | SELF-PROPELLED WELDING MACHINE FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314636 | CONTAINER FOR HEATING PLATES FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 11d overdue |
| 18752051 | WELDING MACHINE | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 42d |
| 18301903 | SELF-PROPELLED WELDING MACHINE FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752051 | WELDING MACHINE | PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18314636 | CONTAINER FOR HEATING PLATES FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18301903 | SELF-PROPELLED WELDING MACHINE FOR BUTT WELDING PIPES | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
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