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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sl Shaveco LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, though these matters are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are likely operating under the same departmental guidelines and technical benchmarks.
WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With the total pending office actions across the portfolio, the workload is divided between the distinct examiners. This distribution within a particular art unit allows the company to compare the approaches of different examiners while remaining within the specific context of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The concentration in the art unit simplifies the technical landscape for the company.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHONG H | 1 | 70.7% | +20.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433760 | RAZOR CARTRIDGES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 42d |
| 18494970 | MAGNETIC ATTACHMENT FOR SHAVING CARTRIDGE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18433760 | RAZOR CARTRIDGES | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18494970 | MAGNETIC ATTACHMENT FOR SHAVING CARTRIDGE | NGUYEN, PHONG H | 3724 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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