Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
S.I.P.A. Società di Industrializzazione Progettazione e Automazione S.P.A. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SHAWN M BRADEN serves as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. The distribution shows that each pending action is being reviewed in a unique division, indicating a lack of examiner overlap in the current portfolio.
With 2 pending office actions and multiple examiners, the company is engaging with different individuals for each of its active matters. This separation is mirrored in the 2 distinct art units involved, suggesting that the filings may cover distinct technical sub-sectors within the medical devices field. SHAWN M BRADEN is responsible for a portion of these pending office actions.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions means that the prosecution environment is not centralized. Practitioners must prepare for the specific procedural nuances of different divisions and the individual preferences of the examiners. This decentralized structure ensures that the outcome of one matter is less likely to be directly influenced by the examiner of the other.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADEN, SHAWN M | 1 | 66.7% | +32.4% |
| VINEIS, FRANK J | 1 | 39.9% | +44.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875458 | REUSABLE BOTTLE MADE OF PLASTIC | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 14d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250465 | PREFORM OF A PLASTIC CONTAINER | VINEIS, FRANK J | 23d overdue |
| 18875458 | REUSABLE BOTTLE MADE OF PLASTIC | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875458 | REUSABLE BOTTLE MADE OF PLASTIC | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18250465 | PREFORM OF A PLASTIC CONTAINER | VINEIS, FRANK J | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
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