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
Tidel Engineering, L.P. has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution effort in the mechanical engineering space. This suggests that the company's current innovations are being evaluated within a specific technical framework rather than across multiple disciplines.
The 1 distinct examiner for the portfolio is GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A, who is the busiest examiner. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized under this single individual. This arrangement allows for a consistent prosecution strategy, as the applicant can focus on addressing the specific feedback from GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A. While this simplifies the management of the portfolio, it also means that the company's current patent outcomes are subject to the interpretation and review of this one examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 1 | 22.1% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17240689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CASH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OPERATION | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 59d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17240689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CASH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OPERATION | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17240689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CASH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OPERATION | GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2021 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial