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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Attends Healthcare Products Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This workload is assigned to the distinct examiner, which shows a focused prosecution path at the USPTO. This concentration allows the applicant to focus resources on a single point of contact during the examination process.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RASSAVONG, ERIC, who is responsible for the pending office action. Since this matches the total active count, this examiner is the only individual currently reviewing the company's applications. This concentration means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback and procedural preferences of RASSAVONG, ERIC.
Furthermore, the portfolio's active matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technical subject matter is currently being evaluated within a single specialized group. For a practitioner, having only this 1 distinct art unit involved simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there is no need to navigate different procedural norms or examination styles across multiple units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16948163 | SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, SHEET HAVING SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, ARTICLES HAVING SHEET WITH SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, AND RELATED METHODS | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16948163 | SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, SHEET HAVING SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, ARTICLES HAVING SHEET WITH SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT-FREE FINISH, AND RELATED METHODS | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2020 |
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