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
Absolutions Med Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KHANDKER, RAIHAN R. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, KHANDKER, RAIHAN R is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the company's current patent office activity is focused on a single matter under the review of a single individual.
The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of 1 pending office action, 1 distinct examiner, and 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for Absolutions Med Inc. in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This concentration means that the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office. There is no distribution of the workload across different examiners or art units.
For practitioners, the presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the tracking of the 1 pending office action. The outcome of this action is solely in the hands of KHANDKER, RAIHAN R. This focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area allows for a direct prosecution strategy, as the company only needs to navigate the requirements of 1 distinct art unit and the specific examination style of 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 1 | 64.2% | +57.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937647 | ABDOMINAL CLOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE VARIATIONS FOR CLOSING VENTRAL HERNIAS AND REDUCING RECURRENCE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937647 | ABDOMINAL CLOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE VARIATIONS FOR CLOSING VENTRAL HERNIAS AND REDUCING RECURRENCE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937647 | ABDOMINAL CLOSURE METHOD AND DEVICE VARIATIONS FOR CLOSING VENTRAL HERNIAS AND REDUCING RECURRENCE | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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