Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alphapointe is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to a distinct examiner, HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA. This examiner is the busiest for the portfolio, handling 2 pending actions. The prosecution is further concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the pending applications are related in technical scope.
Having 2 pending office actions managed by a distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit provides a centralized prosecution environment. This allows the company to maintain a consistent strategy across its current filings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Any feedback from HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA will directly impact the entirety of the pending portfolio, making the relationship with this examiner critical. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA to effectively manage these 2 pending actions within the identified art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 2 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17589830 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3d overdue |
| 19030448 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17589830 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3d overdue |
| 19030448 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030448 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 17589830 | PELVIC BINDING APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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