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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thumbs Up Innovations Technology Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM, in 1 distinct art unit. SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner oversees the company's entire 1 pending office action.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused prosecution strategy for the current filings. The 1 busiest examiner pending action accounts for the totality of the company's pending matters. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the 1 pending office action. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical niche. The pending matter represents the complete current workload for the company at the office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18637873 | ELECTRIC HAIR CURLER | SAMARASEKARA, SARA NELUM | 3772 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
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