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
The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BASICHAS, ALFRED, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for the company's active filings. BASICHAS, ALFRED is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending workload.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner suggests a direct and consistent interaction with the USPTO. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, there is no need to coordinate across different technical divisions. Practitioners can tailor their strategy specifically to the preferences of BASICHAS, ALFRED, as this individual manages the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This centralized structure simplifies the monitoring of prosecution milestones and allows for a highly targeted approach to the company's intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASICHAS, ALFRED | 1 | 72.1% | +3.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547844 | SELF-EXTINGUISHING CANDLE | BASICHAS, ALFRED | 119d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18547844 | SELF-EXTINGUISHING CANDLE | BASICHAS, ALFRED | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 119d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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