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
Slekk AB has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This focus suggests that the company's pending applications are being reviewed by a specific technical group at the patent office. Practitioners should be aware of the examination practices within this assigned art unit when managing the company's portfolio.
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This individual is responsible for the active office action response required for the company's portfolio. Because 1 distinct examiner is handling all pending matters, the company can develop a targeted communication strategy. This arrangement simplifies the prosecution process in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector by centralizing the review under the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566406 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 164d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566406 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 164d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566406 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 164d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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