Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atex Technologies Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. Furthermore, these matters are being reviewed in 3 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical variety in the pending applications. This spread across multiple units suggests that the company's innovations touch on several different specialized areas within the broader medical and mechanical fields.
The busiest examiner, JOHNSON, GERALD, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the company has 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is perfectly distributed with each examiner handling exactly 1 case. This structure means that the prosecution strategy must be adapted for 3 different art units and 3 different examiner perspectives simultaneously. There is no concentration of cases under 1 examiner, which reduces the impact of any individual examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, GERALD | 1 | 78.6% | +9.4% |
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.6% | +17.6% |
| KOSACK, JOSEPH R | 1 | 74.8% | -6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459494 | TIP PORTION FOR A CAUTERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 85d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106027 | Radiopaque Components and Method of Making the Same | JOHNSON, GERALD | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18459494 | TIP PORTION FOR A CAUTERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18070855 | ULTRA-THIN FABRIC, DEVICES, AND METHODS | KOSACK, JOSEPH R | 3991 | Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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