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
Wenzhou Meibo Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused prosecution effort for the company's current mechanical engineering filings. With only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the company's immediate patent success in this area depends on the specific feedback and requirements from the assigned examiner. This streamlined profile allows the applicant to focus their resources on meeting the specific technical criteria of the busiest examiner.
MICHALSKI, SEAN M is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action for the portfolio. This represents the only matter currently active for the company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The prosecution strategy is therefore entirely centralized within the 1 distinct art unit. This allows for a very targeted legal strategy, focusing all resources on the requirements of the assigned examiner. Understanding the distinct art unit's typical approach to mechanical engineering claims will be essential for a successful outcome. The outcome of this interaction will define the current success rate for the 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849480 | SHAVING SYSTEM | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849480 | SHAVING SYSTEM | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 21, 2024 |
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