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
Asd Specialty Healthcare LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This application is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused approach to its technical intellectual property. The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, ACKUN, JACOB K, who is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload. Having only 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows the company to develop a highly specialized relationship with the assigned USPTO personnel.
ACKUN, JACOB K is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Because this single examiner holds the company's only active matter, the outcome of their review is critical to the current success of the portfolio. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit involved likely dictates the specific prior art and legal standards applied to the case. The lack of examiner diversity across the 1 pending office action suggests a centralized prosecution environment where consistency is more easily maintained than in larger, more distributed portfolios.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKUN, JACOB K | 1 | 56.9% | +3.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917801 | DOSE TRACKING DEVICE | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | DP | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
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