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
Ansena Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined administrative structure for the company's current filings. This focus within the identified art unit indicates that the company's current innovation is being evaluated against a consistent set of prior art and examination standards.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This individual is the sole examiner engaged with the company's pending patent applications. Because the entirety of the company's active prosecution is in the hands of STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F, the outcome of this single matter will define the company's immediate success at the USPTO.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests that the company's current prosecution phase is relatively quiet. While this reduces the immediate burden on the company's intellectual property budget, it also means that the company's future patent position in the medical device space is currently tied to the outcome of this specific matter. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific feedback provided by this single 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.6% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505013 | METHOD FOR USING GOLD FOIL | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18505013 | METHOD FOR USING GOLD FOIL | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
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