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
V-SHAPES S.R.L. holds a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is the sole focus of its active prosecution. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, MACFARLANE, EVAN H, who is the only examiner currently assigned to the company's applications.
The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's innovations in medical devices or mechanical engineering are being reviewed within a specific technical group. MACFARLANE, EVAN H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner's individual review will determine the immediate outcome for the pending matter.
Since there is only 1 pending office action, the busiest examiner's load represents the total active workload for the portfolio. This one-to-one relationship simplifies the management of the patenting process. Practitioners can concentrate their efforts on understanding the specific examination patterns of MACFARLANE, EVAN H, as there are no other pending actions to consider. This focused approach within 1 distinct art unit provides a clear path for managing the company's current intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800646 | SEALED SINGLE-DOSE BREAK-OPEN PACKAGE, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800646 | SEALED SINGLE-DOSE BREAK-OPEN PACKAGE, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800646 | SEALED SINGLE-DOSE BREAK-OPEN PACKAGE, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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