Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Artedrone maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 4 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These 4 pending office actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, which shows that the company's technology is being examined under 4 different technical classifications.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, matching the number of pending actions and art units. This balanced ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape. Each of the 4 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner in a unique art unit, requiring the practitioner to manage 4 separate legal tracks simultaneously.
ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL is listed as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners has an equal share of the workload, ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL is 1 of 4 individuals responsible for the portfolio's progress. Practitioners must develop 4 distinct strategies to address the 4 pending office actions across the various art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.7% | +31.5% |
| TRAN, JULIE THI | 1 | 33.3% | +70.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573558 | MEDICAL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING A THROMBUS FROM A VESSEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DEVICE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3d overdue |
| 17916250 | A MEDICAL DEVICE, A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE, A SYSTEM COMPRISING A DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING A DEVICE | TRAN, JULIE THI | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573558 | MEDICAL DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING A THROMBUS FROM A VESSEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A DEVICE | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17916250 | A MEDICAL DEVICE, A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE, A SYSTEM COMPRISING A DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING A DEVICE | TRAN, JULIE THI | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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