Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spin Master Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units indicates a lack of overlap.
With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the portfolio is spread out for its size. LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is the same amount as the other official. This lack of concentration means that prosecution success depends on the individual decisions of 2 different people. The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the 2 pending office actions cover different sub-specialties within the medical devices field. Practitioners must manage 2 separate examiner relationships across 2 different organizational groups at the office. There are no shared examiners or art units among the 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 78.4% | +9.4% |
| HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 1 | 46.8% | +30.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633262 | TOY THAT CAN TRAVEL AND CAN GENERATE SUCTION | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18759167 | APPARATUS, KIT, AND METHOD FOR DECORATING NAILS | LUCCHESI, NICHOLAS D | 3772 | §102 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18633262 | TOY THAT CAN TRAVEL AND CAN GENERATE SUCTION | HYLINSKI, ALYSSA MARIE | 3711 | §112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
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