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
Tecnicoll S R L has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is currently being examined within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of activity in this technology area reflects the company's current focus within the patent office and its technical specialization in mechanical systems. Having 1 pending office action indicates a highly targeted approach to its current intellectual property development.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, WALCZAK, DAVID J. As the busiest examiner for the company, WALCZAK, DAVID J is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company's current examiner interactions are centralized under 1 person. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is simplified to a point of contact for the pending matter.
With 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution profile is highly specific and manageable. Practitioners must address the 1 pending matter within the context of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. This focused environment requires a precise response to the examiner's findings to move the application forward.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791530 | DOSING OR METERING DEVICE FOR HOT FLUID | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 43d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791530 | DOSING OR METERING DEVICE FOR HOT FLUID | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791530 | DOSING OR METERING DEVICE FOR HOT FLUID | WALCZAK, DAVID J | 3754 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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