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
Surfaces Technological Abrasives S P A maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of engagement with the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHUM, KENT N, who is handling 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, SHUM, KENT N is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit for this single action suggests a narrow focus within the mechanical engineering field for the company's current filings. For a practitioner, this means the outcome of this single pending office action with 1 distinct examiner will be the primary determinant of the company's current prosecution success. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the only pending action in the portfolio indicates a very specific technical focus for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 37.7% | +50.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684462 | FINISHING TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684462 | FINISHING TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684462 | FINISHING TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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