Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seco Tools AB has 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 7 actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 7 pending applications is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of examiners to actions provides the company with a variety of feedback from the examining corps across its mechanical engineering portfolio.
The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical diversity within the field. WALSH, DANIEL I is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the 7 pending office actions are divided among the examiners, the workload is balanced with no examiner handling more than 1 case. This structure requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across the 4 distinct art units involved in the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, DANIEL I | 1 | 64.3% | +12.0% |
| TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 63.2% | +43.6% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.5% |
| POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 1 | 76.6% | +32.3% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.4% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576789 | PROCESSING TOOL AND A PROCESSING TOOL ASSEMBLY | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 13d |
| 19091937 | CUTTING TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TRACEABILITY OF A CUTTING EDGE | WALSH, DANIEL I | — |
| 18871977 | CUTTING TOOL | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| 18721967 | DRILL BODY OF AN INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL AND INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL COMPRISING SUCH A DRILL BODY | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767707 | COATED CUTTING TOOL | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 9d |
| 18576789 | PROCESSING TOOL AND A PROCESSING TOOL ASSEMBLY | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 13d |
| 19091937 | CUTTING TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TRACEABILITY OF A CUTTING EDGE | WALSH, DANIEL I | — |
| 18871977 | CUTTING TOOL | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| 18721967 | DRILL BODY OF AN INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL AND INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL COMPRISING SUCH A DRILL BODY | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| 18696251 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTACT BETWEEN A CUTTING TOOL AND AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE WORKPIECE | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | — |
| 18563111 | POLYCRYSTALLINE CUBIC BORON NITRIDE BODY | PATEL, RONAK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 2 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091937 | CUTTING TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TRACEABILITY OF A CUTTING EDGE | WALSH, DANIEL I | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18871977 | CUTTING TOOL | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3726 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18721967 | DRILL BODY OF AN INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL AND INDEXABLE INSERT DRILL COMPRISING SUCH A DRILL BODY | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18696251 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTACT BETWEEN A CUTTING TOOL AND AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE WORKPIECE | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18576789 | PROCESSING TOOL AND A PROCESSING TOOL ASSEMBLY | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18563111 | POLYCRYSTALLINE CUBIC BORON NITRIDE BODY | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 17767707 | COATED CUTTING TOOL | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
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