Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ty Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Unlike many portfolios where work is distributed, all active prosecution for this company is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. Furthermore, the portfolio is being reviewed by only 1 distinct examiner, LEGESSE, NINI F. This high level of concentration is unusual for a portfolio with multiple active matters.
As the busiest examiner, LEGESSE, NINI F is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which represents the entirety of the company's pending workload. This concentration provides a unique opportunity for a consistent prosecution strategy, as both of the pending office actions are being evaluated by the same individual in the same art unit. For the applicant, this means that any successful arguments or amendments made in one case are likely to be viewed similarly in the other. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner means that the overall success of the current portfolio is tied to the specific examination style of this single official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEGESSE, NINI F | 2 | 68.6% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182808 | BOUNCING TOY WITH PLUSH EXTERIOR | LEGESSE, NINI F | 16d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182808 | BOUNCING TOY WITH PLUSH EXTERIOR | LEGESSE, NINI F | 16d |
| 19335167 | BOUNCING TOY WITH PLUSH EXTERIOR | LEGESSE, NINI F | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19335167 | BOUNCING TOY WITH PLUSH EXTERIOR | LEGESSE, NINI F | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19182808 | BOUNCING TOY WITH PLUSH EXTERIOR | LEGESSE, NINI F | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
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