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
Shenzhen Aosen Hande Electronic Commerce Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit. The company's current prosecution profile is very focused, with all active efforts directed toward this single application in the medical device field.
Sara Nelum Samarasekara is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing the pending office action. This single matter constitutes the full extent of the company's active prosecution presence. The outcome of this case is the primary factor in the company's immediate success in securing patent rights within this technology area.
The reliance on a single examiner and art unit means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specific to the feedback received from this individual. There are no other examiners or art units to coordinate with at this time. The active action represents the current focus of the company's engagement with the patent office's examination process.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19001601 | HAIR CURLER | SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
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