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
Temafa Maschinenfabrik GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. AIYING ZHAO is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending action. The portfolio involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a single active matter currently under review. This reflects a focused prosecution strategy within the specialized field of medical and mechanical engineering.
The concentration of the portfolio into a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner means that the company's current patent prospects are tied to a single examination path. AIYING ZHAO is the sole official reviewing the company's active filing. This lack of examiner diversity suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific technical advancement rather than managing an array of simultaneous applications across different divisions of the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHAO, AIYING | 1 | 48.4% | +42.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734426 | TEXTILE MACHINE WITH DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TEXTILE MACHINE | ZHAO, AIYING | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734426 | TEXTILE MACHINE WITH DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TEXTILE MACHINE | ZHAO, AIYING | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734426 | TEXTILE MACHINE WITH DISPLAY UNIT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TEXTILE MACHINE | ZHAO, AIYING | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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