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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Softcar SA maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently faces 1 pending office action, which represents the total active workload for the company's legal representatives. This concentration of 1 pending office action suggests a very specific focus for the current prosecution efforts.
The data indicates that 1 distinct examiner is responsible for the review, working within 1 distinct art unit. This structure means that the company's patent applications are not being pulled in different directions by multiple examiners or art unit standards. For a practitioner, this 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit setup simplifies the prosecution landscape by providing a single point of contact and a consistent technical framework.
HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this matches the total count of pending actions, the entire immediate future of the portfolio rests with this individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE to successfully resolve the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.5% | +49.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723252 | AUTOMOBILE PLANT WITH SMALL CARBON FOOTPRINT | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723252 | AUTOMOBILE PLANT WITH SMALL CARBON FOOTPRINT | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723252 | AUTOMOBILE PLANT WITH SMALL CARBON FOOTPRINT | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2024 |
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