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
Swiss Industrial Consulting & Technology SA is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent portfolio shows 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed to 1 distinct examiner. Additionally, the data indicates that all activity is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current applications are technically focused and subject to a unified review process.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is JOH, CATHERINE. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This matches the 1 total pending office action reported for the company. Practitioners should recognize that JOH, CATHERINE is the only examiner currently reviewing the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the prosecution is not spread across different technical groups. The outcome for the 1 pending action will be determined by the specific requirements and interpretations of JOH, CATHERINE. The 1 pending action represents the entire active 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOH, CATHERINE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559149 | A PARTICULATE MATERIAL BLASTING APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559149 | A PARTICULATE MATERIAL BLASTING APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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