Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sabaf S P A has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners involved, all active prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company is interacting with different individuals, the applications are being reviewed within the same specialized administrative group at the patent office, which may provide some consistency in the overall examination environment.
GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This even distribution of the workload means that the company's prosecution efforts are split equally between the two examiners. The centralization within a single art unit allows the company to focus its legal strategy on the specific standards and practices of that unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK | 1 | — | — |
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.1% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532616 | Induction Cooktop and Method for Controlling an Induction Cooktop | GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090215 | Induction Cooktop and Method for an Induction Cooktop | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 86d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18532616 | Induction Cooktop and Method for Controlling an Induction Cooktop | GAUTHIER, NICHOLAS FREDRICK | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18090215 | Induction Cooktop and Method for an Induction Cooktop | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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