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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asco SAS currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JONATHAN J WADDY. Furthermore, the entirety of the company's current prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical and personnel consistency in their USPTO interactions.
JONATHAN J WADDY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 2 pending office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's prosecution results are heavily influenced by the specific tendencies of this single examiner. This concentration allows for a unified strategy, as the legal team can apply insights gained from one pending action directly to the other. The singular focus on 1 distinct art unit also ensures that the technical standards applied to the applications remain consistent, simplifying the overall management of the company's medical device and mechanical engineering patents.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.7% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19318848 | Diaphragm valve | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19318848 | Diaphragm valve | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19318848 | Diaphragm valve | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
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