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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samoa Industrial S A currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This legal activity is categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner and is distributed across 1 distinct art unit. FINK, THOMAS ANDREW is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding responsibility for 1 pending office action.
This volume of 1 pending office action reflects the company's current engagement with the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates how the company's patent challenges are concentrated within a single technical division. Practitioners can observe that the workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which allows for a singular focus on that individual's specific prosecution style and preferences. This interaction within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio necessitates careful coordination between the applicant and the office staff. The data shows a portfolio where active matters are reviewed by FINK, THOMAS ANDREW, requiring a tailored approach to the outstanding issue. The examiner and art unit involved may have unique procedural expectations that the company must navigate to advance its intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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