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
A R C Laser GmbH is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's pending research covers different specialized fields within the sector. The involvement of multiple art units suggests a technical footprint that spans several areas of review.
Prosecution is handled by a pair of distinct examiners. CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. With two distinct examiners for the pending office actions, each application is being reviewed independently. This means that the practitioner must manage separate prosecution tracks, each tailored to the specific examiner and art unit involved. The distribution among the 2 distinct examiners ensures that the outcome of one pending office action does not necessarily influence the other.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 1 | 37.6% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711443 | OPHTHALMIC MASK, OPHTHALMIC DEVICE AND USE THEREOF | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | — |
| 17345952 | VITRECTOMY NEEDLE, A VITRECTOME, A VITRECTOMY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VITRECTOMY NEEDLE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17345952 | VITRECTOMY NEEDLE, A VITRECTOME, A VITRECTOMY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VITRECTOMY NEEDLE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711443 | OPHTHALMIC MASK, OPHTHALMIC DEVICE AND USE THEREOF | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 17345952 | VITRECTOMY NEEDLE, A VITRECTOME, A VITRECTOMY DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VITRECTOMY NEEDLE | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2021 |
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