Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shya Hsin Packaging Industry (China) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions. These are in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and are located in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent applications are technically similar and are being reviewed by the same specialized group at the patent office.
The company's prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. RACHEL RUNNING STEITZ is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The 2 pending actions are split between the 2 examiners, with each managing one case. Although the cases are in the same art unit, the company must address the individual review styles of 2 different examiners. This requires a prosecution approach that maintains technical consistency across the 2 matters while adapting to the specific feedback provided by each of the 2 examiners 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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 1 | 54.4% | +26.1% |
| HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976387 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL COSMETIC BRUSH AND COSMETIC CONTAINER INCLUDING SAME | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 11d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976387 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL COSMETIC BRUSH AND COSMETIC CONTAINER INCLUDING SAME | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976387 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL COSMETIC BRUSH AND COSMETIC CONTAINER INCLUDING SAME | STEITZ, RACHEL RUNNING | 3772 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18872828 | POP-UP COSMETIC CONTAINER | HUYNH, BRYANT KHIEM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2024 |
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