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
Silhoutte Japan Corporation is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of work suggests a singular focus for the company's current patenting efforts, with no current activity spread across other technical departments.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is AYALA, FERNANDO A, who is managing the 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio, the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on this individual's evaluation. This creates a streamlined but high-stakes environment where the company's intellectual property goals are tied to a single point of contact within the patent office.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current filings are being handled within a specific specialized group. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for the differing procedural norms of multiple art units. Instead, efforts can be focused on meeting the specific technical and legal standards prevalent within this unit and the expectations of AYALA, FERNANDO A.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYALA, FERNANDO A | 1 | 53.6% | +26.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882375 | CUTTING PLOTTER AND MEDIUM SUPPORTING DEVICE THEREOF | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18882375 | CUTTING PLOTTER AND MEDIUM SUPPORTING DEVICE THEREOF | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18882375 | CUTTING PLOTTER AND MEDIUM SUPPORTING DEVICE THEREOF | AYALA, FERNANDO A | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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