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
Silk Touch Laser LLC operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. GRACE HUANG is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner suggests a streamlined but highly focused prosecution environment. Since the activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the company's technical focus in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is being reviewed by a specific group of specialists. Practitioners should analyze the past decisions of GRACE HUANG to better understand the likely path to allowance for this pending matter. The pending action represents the current bottleneck for the portfolio's growth in this technology sector. By focusing on the requirements of the art unit, the company can better navigate the examination process. Successfully resolving the matter is the sole focus of current prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, GRACE | 1 | 56.8% | +55.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432121 | Post-surgical garment | HUANG, GRACE | 55d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18432121 | Post-surgical garment | HUANG, GRACE | 55d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18432121 | Post-surgical garment | HUANG, GRACE | 3732 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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