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
A-Dec Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The portfolio's activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. This structure shows that the company's current patent prosecution is entirely focused on a single examiner and a single art unit.
For a practitioner, having only one active matter assigned to one distinct examiner within a single art unit creates a highly focused prosecution environment. This concentration means that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the relationship with SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO. While this simplifies the management of the portfolio, it also means there is no diversification of examiner perspectives. Strategic efforts should be directed toward understanding the specific examination history of this single examiner to optimize the chances of allowance for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143029 | ELECTRONIC FLUID CONTROL IN DENTAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143029 | ELECTRONIC FLUID CONTROL IN DENTAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18143029 | ELECTRONIC FLUID CONTROL IN DENTAL DELIVERY SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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