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
Shoealls Co. Ltd. oversees a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This single action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus for the company's active intellectual property. For practitioners, this concentration suggests that the company's legal strategy is deeply embedded in a specific technical niche within the broader mechanical engineering sector.
Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, TOICH, SARA KATHERINE. As the busiest examiner, TOICH, SARA KATHERINE is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, TOICH, SARA KATHERINE is the sole examiner currently overseeing the company's prosecution efforts. This 1 to 1 ratio between total pending actions and those assigned to the busiest examiner shows that all current legal hurdles for the company are consolidated under a single individual's review. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's current filings is entirely subject to the review and requirements of this 1 examiner within the designated 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461870 | HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461870 | HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18461870 | HEALTH-PROMOTING FUNCTIONAL SHOE HAVING FUNCTION OF STIMULATING SOLAR PLEXUS POINT | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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