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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arms Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HONRATH, MARC D, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending application. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical application for the company's intellectual property.
The company's active portfolio consists of 1 pending office action, requiring a focused response to the 1 distinct examiner involved. Because HONRATH, MARC D is the only examiner with a pending case, the company's current success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends on this single interaction. This 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners allows for a dedicated prosecution strategy.
Practitioners should focus on the 1 pending office action as the primary driver of the company's patent office activity. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the examination will follow the specific standards and practices of that unit. Successfully navigating the 1 pending application under HONRATH, MARC D is essential for the continued development of the company's patent portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 74.5% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689661 | PRESHAPED BIOLOGIC SCAFFOLDS | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689661 | PRESHAPED BIOLOGIC SCAFFOLDS | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17689661 | PRESHAPED BIOLOGIC SCAFFOLDS | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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