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
Asfora IP, LLC manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution activity includes 1 pending office action reported. This 1 pending office action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's patent office activity is limited to a specific technical domain. This narrow focus indicates that the company is not currently managing a high volume of diverse applications in this field, allowing for a concentrated legal strategy.
The examination process is handled by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing all current feedback. SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is matched by the workload of SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS, this examiner is the 1 individual currently reviewing the company's applications. This creates a streamlined prosecution environment where the outcome of the company's current intellectual property efforts depends entirely on the interactions within 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners must tailor their approach to the specific examination style of SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS, as there is no diversity in the examination sources for the portfolio at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.5% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347474 | SUBDURAL EVACUATION PORT WITH NEEDLE ACCESS PORT | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18347474 | SUBDURAL EVACUATION PORT WITH NEEDLE ACCESS PORT | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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