Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weener Plastics Group B V has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing that each matter is being reviewed in a different group. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners.
ALLAN D STEVENS is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under review. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling 1 pending office action, the workload is distributed. The counts of 3 pending office actions, 3 distinct examiners, and 3 distinct art units indicate a lack of concentration in the current prosecution pipeline.
Practitioners managing these matters must navigate 3 different art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, each case requires an individual approach. The presence of ALLAN D STEVENS as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action underscores the distributed nature of this portfolio.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425001 | SELF-CLOSING DISPENSING VALVE MADE OF A PLASTOMER OR A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER | ZADEH, BOB | 14d |
| 19100974 | SNAP CAP | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| 18868889 | DISPENSING CLOSURE WITH TAMPER-EVIDENT PUSH-BUTTON | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18425001 | SELF-CLOSING DISPENSING VALVE MADE OF A PLASTOMER OR A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER | ZADEH, BOB | 14d |
| 19100974 | SNAP CAP | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100974 | SNAP CAP | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18868889 | DISPENSING CLOSURE WITH TAMPER-EVIDENT PUSH-BUTTON | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18425001 | SELF-CLOSING DISPENSING VALVE MADE OF A PLASTOMER OR A THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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