Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BD KIESTRA B.V. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. PORTILLO, JAIRO H is the busiest examiner for the entity, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions suggests a technical concentration in the company's current applications. Although there are 2 distinct examiners, their placement in the same art unit implies they may follow similar internal guidelines or supervisory oversight. For the practitioner, this means that while the 2 pending office actions are handled separately, the technical arguments may remain consistent across the portfolio.
Managing 2 pending office actions with 2 distinct examiners requires coordinating two separate prosecution timelines. PORTILLO, JAIRO H handles 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is the same count as the other examiner involved. This distribution of actions to examiners within 1 distinct art unit provides a balanced workload for the company's current medical device and mechanical engineering matters. The 2 pending office actions represent the total current workload for this entity at the office.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 1 | 53.5% | +31.1% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 42d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 42d overdue |
| 17632381 | DISPOSABLE BLOOD METERING DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18685557 | BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 17632381 | DISPOSABLE BLOOD METERING DEVICE | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
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