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
Bankruptcy Estate Deeproot Capital Management LLC holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the active prosecution for the estate. Practitioners should observe that the administrative focus is concentrated on this individual matter.
The prosecution is conducted by 1 distinct examiner, HOEL, MATTHEW D. This individual is identified as the busiest examiner and is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner manages all current interactions between the estate and the patent office. This centralization allows for a prosecution strategy tailored to the specific patterns of a single official.
All activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering within a single unit suggests a specific technical application. For the practitioner, this 1 distinct art unit defines the regulatory and technical standards that must be met to advance the portfolio. The streamlined nature of the docket simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEL, MATTHEW D | 1 | 67.6% | +32.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787971 | Interactive Touch Control for a Pinball Machine | HOEL, MATTHEW D | 366d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17787971 | Interactive Touch Control for a Pinball Machine | HOEL, MATTHEW D | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 366d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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