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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tao Mining Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner and art unit. Osama Mohammad Nemer is the busiest examiner, managing the pending office action.
With a 1 pending office action, Tao Mining Co. Ltd. has a concentrated prosecution profile. The focus on the distinct art unit and examiner indicates that the company's current medical device patent strategy is centered on the review by Osama Mohammad Nemer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 1 | 66.0% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17490268 | METHOD FOR OPERATING HEALTH-CARE DEVICE | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17490268 | METHOD FOR OPERATING HEALTH-CARE DEVICE | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
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