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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shakespeare Company LLC is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed between distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a split in the company's current prosecution efforts. DONG, LIANG is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The involvement of the art units suggests that the 2 pending office actions cover different technical aspects within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because there are multiple examiners, the company must adapt its legal strategy to different sets of examiner feedback. The busiest examiner, DONG, LIANG, manages 1 of these pending matters, indicating an even distribution of the workload.
Practitioners should monitor the pending office actions to ensure that the arguments presented to the examiners remain consistent. The presence of the distinct art units may lead to different examination timelines or procedural requirements. This dual-track prosecution requires careful coordination to protect the company's interests across the field.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361264 | COLORABLE AND BIODEGRADABLE TRIMMER LINE AND METHOD THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 36d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361264 | COLORABLE AND BIODEGRADABLE TRIMMER LINE AND METHOD THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 36d overdue |
| 18644719 | DETACHABLY FASTENABLE TRIMMER HEAD | DONG, LIANG | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18644719 | DETACHABLY FASTENABLE TRIMMER HEAD | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18361264 | COLORABLE AND BIODEGRADABLE TRIMMER LINE AND METHOD THEREOF | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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