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
Wella Operations US LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a streamlined interaction with the patent office. Furthermore, the work is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical expertise applied to the company's pending application.
NOBREGA, TATIANA L is the busiest examiner for Wella Operations US LLC, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single examiner is currently the sole point of contact for the company's active prosecution, as the 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current workload. For practitioners, this means that the success of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field is tied directly to the feedback from NOBREGA, TATIANA L. Strategy should be tailored to this specific examiner's history and the standards of the single art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 1 | 33.3% | +58.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972091 | PLASTIC NAIL EXTENSION AND USE IN A NAIL APPLIQUE KIT | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972091 | PLASTIC NAIL EXTENSION AND USE IN A NAIL APPLIQUE KIT | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972091 | PLASTIC NAIL EXTENSION AND USE IN A NAIL APPLIQUE KIT | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 3799 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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