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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou Slac Precision Equipment Co. Ltd. currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This focused portfolio suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a centralized point of contact for the prosecution process.
The application is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration implies that the technology falls under a specific set of mechanical or medical classification standards. For the practitioner, 1 distinct art unit means that the prior art landscape is likely well-defined and consistent across the filing.
PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner involved, PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK will be the primary arbiter of the patentability of the claims. Success in this matter depends on addressing the specific technical concerns of this individual.
The presence of only 1 pending office action allows for a highly concentrated legal strategy. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This simplicity facilitates a clear path toward potential allowance without the complexities of a larger, more distributed portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281624 | EQUIPMENT FOR HIGH-SPEED STABLE NECK FORMING OF CANS THROUGH MULTIPLE REPOSITIONING | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281624 | EQUIPMENT FOR HIGH-SPEED STABLE NECK FORMING OF CANS THROUGH MULTIPLE REPOSITIONING | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281624 | EQUIPMENT FOR HIGH-SPEED STABLE NECK FORMING OF CANS THROUGH MULTIPLE REPOSITIONING | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
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