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
Ablation Innovations LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and has 1 pending office action. This single action indicates that the company is currently in the process of securing patent rights for a specific medical or mechanical innovation. The activity level suggests a targeted prosecution effort.
The prosecution for this company is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the technical focus of the company's current work is narrow and fits within a single specialized area at the patent office. For a practitioner, this concentration simplifies the prosecution process, as there is only one examiner's perspective and one art unit's guidelines to consider.
The busiest examiner identified is LUAN, SCOTT, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that this examiner is the only one currently assigned to the company's pending matters, their specific examination style will be a major factor. Practitioners should review the examiner's history in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to address the 1 pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16796895 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO IMPROVE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION OUTCOMES INVOLVING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | LUAN, SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16796895 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO IMPROVE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION OUTCOMES INVOLVING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | LUAN, SCOTT | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2020 |
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