Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Samuel Son & Co. (Usa) Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual in a separate specialized group within the USPTO's medical and mechanical divisions. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending matters may involve different technical sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner, TAWFIK, SAMEH, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the workload is split, with each of the 2 distinct examiners handling a portion of the total pending workload. The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the actions are subject to different supervisory guidelines. For the practitioner, this requires managing separate prosecution paths, as there is no concentration of examiners or art units for the 2 pending office actions. The strategy for each matter must be tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17963638 | WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 103d overdue |
| 18975722 | HAND HELD STRAPPING TOOL | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18975722 | HAND HELD STRAPPING TOOL | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 17963638 | WELDING APPARATUS | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
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