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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atacor Medical Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These active cases are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that the company's current prosecution efforts are being evaluated by multiple specialized units and examiners rather than being concentrated in a single office, which can provide different perspectives on the patentability of the inventions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution workload is split. This ensures that each pending matter in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is being reviewed by a different individual and within a different art unit, avoiding administrative bottlenecks that might occur if the 2 pending office actions were assigned to a single person.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.2% | +34.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17993759 | Systems and Methods for Lead Anchor Insertion | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 9d |
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17993759 | Systems and Methods for Lead Anchor Insertion | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 9d |
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18365918 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL LEADS AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY AND CONTROL SYSTEMS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 17993759 | Systems and Methods for Lead Anchor Insertion | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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