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
Wila B V maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused intersection of mechanical and medical technologies in their current filings. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that all current feedback from the patent office originates from a single source. This structure allows for a very consistent prosecution approach but limits the company's exposure to different examination methodologies.
The busiest examiner, PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This individual is responsible for the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action, creating a direct relationship between the examiner's specific requirements and the company's prosecution outcomes. Practitioners can observe that the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the full extent of the company's current active examination footprint. Consequently, the active matter is the only metric currently driving the company's immediate patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566799 | Clamping system for a press brake, tool and assembly thereof | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566799 | Clamping system for a press brake, tool and assembly thereof | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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