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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sonny'S Hfi Holdings LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very focused technical area for the company's current applications. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, including MICHAEL ROBERT REID, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This concentration in 1 art unit may provide some technical consistency across the company's medical device filings.
Because each of the 2 pending actions is handled by a different examiner, the company must manage different individual approaches within the same 1 art unit. This concentration in a single art unit may simplify the technical landscape, but the individual examiner preferences will still play a significant role in the outcomes. Practitioners should monitor both cases for any overlapping prior art or legal rejections that could be addressed with a unified strategy. The presence of 2 examiners for the pending actions ensures that each matter receives an independent review.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| BHATIA, ANSHU | 1 | 84.2% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596979 | CHEMICAL DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DILUTION CONTROL | BHATIA, ANSHU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182845 | MANIFOLD WITH INTEGRATED VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| 18596979 | CHEMICAL DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DILUTION CONTROL | BHATIA, ANSHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182845 | MANIFOLD WITH INTEGRATED VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18596979 | CHEMICAL DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DILUTION CONTROL | BHATIA, ANSHU | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
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