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
Rtl Materials Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a focused prosecution effort within the mechanical and medical device sectors.
The data shows a distinct examiner is involved in the current workload, specifically SHAKERI, HADI. This individual is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding a busiest examiner pending action. Because the pending office action is the only one currently active, the practitioner's interaction is limited to this examiner. The distinct examiner and art unit indicate that the portfolio is not currently facing a broad range of examiner perspectives. This centralized prosecution allows for a direct and consistent approach to addressing the pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAKERI, HADI | 1 | 62.1% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18276579 | TOOL WITH EXTENDIBLE HANDLE | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18276579 | TOOL WITH EXTENDIBLE HANDLE | SHAKERI, HADI | 3723 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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