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
Tangle Teezer Limited currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused application of the company's technology. The prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner, which allows for a direct and consistent line of communication with the patent office. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the rules and trends of this single art unit.
The busiest examiner, RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND, is currently managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, the company's immediate patenting goals are subject to the examination style of this single individual. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending technology is specialized and does not overlap with other mechanical or medical classifications at this stage. This structure allows the legal team to focus on the specific technical requirements and precedents of a single division within the patent office, streamlining the path toward potential allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18371199 | HAIR BRUSH | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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