Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amx Technologies LLC currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct examiners, such that each action is handled by a different individual. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for these filings.
Busiest examiner HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a majority of the pending workload. Practitioner attention is focused on a single art unit, which simplifies the monitoring of procedural requirements and unit-specific preferences. The distribution of cases among 4 examiners requires managing separate individual perspectives within that single administrative unit. This structure suggests that while the technical field is consistent, the company must adapt to the specific nuances of different examiners simultaneously across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.7% | +22.6% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.7% | +12.4% |
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 62.9% | +50.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044761 | Method And Device For Removing Heart Valve Therapy | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755614 | Methods And Apparatus For Heart Valve Leaflet Modification | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859956 | HEART VALVE LEAFLET MODIFICATION | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | — |
| 18727061 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REMOVING HEART VALVE THERAPY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 17755614 | Methods And Apparatus For Heart Valve Leaflet Modification | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859956 | HEART VALVE LEAFLET MODIFICATION | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18727061 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REMOVING HEART VALVE THERAPY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18044761 | Method And Device For Removing Heart Valve Therapy | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 17755614 | Methods And Apparatus For Heart Valve Leaflet Modification | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
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