Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Win Coat Corporation currently maintains a portfolio with 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This volume of active prosecution indicates a focused patent strategy. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which means each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual at the USPTO.
The prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's technology spans multiple specialized classifications within the mechanical sector. For the practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the specific examination standards of each of the 2 distinct art units.
FREHE, WILLIAM R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. While FREHE, WILLIAM R is the most active examiner, the workload is evenly split among the 2 distinct examiners involved. Understanding the specific preferences of FREHE, WILLIAM R is essential for advancing the matters under their review.
With 2 pending office actions, the company's prosecution environment is balanced. Practitioners should ensure that arguments remain consistent across the different examiners while addressing the unique technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. This approach will help in navigating the complexities of the USPTO's review process.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
| GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1 | 63.2% | +34.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18244521 | LAYERED MATERIAL FOR MUCOADHESION, AND PATCH AND MICRONEEDLE PATCH COMPRISING THE SAME | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 29d |
| 18168938 | HYDROGEL COMPOSITION, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND HYDROGEL MATERIAL | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18244521 | LAYERED MATERIAL FOR MUCOADHESION, AND PATCH AND MICRONEEDLE PATCH COMPRISING THE SAME | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18168938 | HYDROGEL COMPOSITION, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND HYDROGEL MATERIAL | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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