Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ya-Man Ltd. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These active matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a range of technical subject matter despite the small volume of pending cases. The company is engaging with distinct examiners to move these applications forward through the patent office.
The prosecution workload is split among the assigned staff, as the busiest examiner, NOBREGA, TATIANA L, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure accounts for a single pending office action currently facing the portfolio. The presence of distinct examiners for the actions indicates that no single examiner is handling multiple pending matters for the company at this time.
Practitioners should note the balance between the number of pending actions and the number of examiners and art units involved. With distinct art units and distinct examiners for the pending office actions, the company's current prosecution is decentralized across different specialized groups. This requires a tailored approach for each of the pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014448 | HAIR IRON | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 10d overdue |
| 18754853 | Hair Beauty Instrument | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014448 | HAIR IRON | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 10d overdue |
| 18754853 | Hair Beauty Instrument | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014448 | HAIR IRON | NOBREGA, TATIANA L | 3799 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18754853 | Hair Beauty Instrument | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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