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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tommy Enterprises, Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent prosecution is highly centralized, with no diversification across different examination teams or administrative units at this stage of its intellectual property development.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action constitutes the total of 1 pending office actions for the company. The prosecution strategy is therefore tied directly to the feedback and requirements of this individual examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, requiring a targeted approach to resolve the outstanding matter.
With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's pending intellectual property is categorized within a specific technical domain. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner suggests a low administrative complexity for the current portfolio. This allows Tommy Enterprises, Inc. to focus its efforts on a single set of examiner communications to resolve the 1 pending office action without the need to manage multiple prosecution timelines.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 1 | 69.9% | +45.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733099 | VACUUM HOLSTER | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18733099 | VACUUM HOLSTER | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733099 | VACUUM HOLSTER | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial