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
Rook Tactical LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Sarang Afzali is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution activity is highly concentrated. Sarang Afzali is the only examiner the company is interacting with at this time. The 1 distinct art unit defines the technical scope for the application.
Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific examination style of Sarang Afzali within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field to advance this 1 pending office action. This single matter represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution. Success depends on navigating the technical requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the procedural expectations of Sarang Afzali.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397443 | Drilling and Finishing Jig for the Manufacture of Pistols | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397443 | Drilling and Finishing Jig for the Manufacture of Pistols | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18397443 | Drilling and Finishing Jig for the Manufacture of Pistols | AFZALI, SARANG | 3726 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
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