Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNITEC S.P.A. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both of these examiners are situated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a high degree of technical focus for the company's current pending applications. This structure suggests that the patent office views these applications as belonging to the same specialized category.
TAWFIK, SAMEH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The distribution shows that the 2 pending actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. Because both examiners operate within 1 distinct art unit, the company may benefit from a unified set of examination policies. However, the practitioner must still navigate the individual nuances of 2 different examiners. This combination of examiner variety and art unit concentration defines their current prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
| WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 1 | 71.5% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19132211 | PACKING STATION FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19132211 | PACKING STATION FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| 18876039 | PACKAGING ASSEMBLY FOR THE PREPARATION OF PACKAGES OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132211 | PACKING STATION FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18876039 | PACKAGING ASSEMBLY FOR THE PREPARATION OF PACKAGES OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS | WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
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