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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BELKIN VISION LTD. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution effort for the company's active patent application. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current workload is localized within a specific technical division of the patent office.
ROANE, AARON F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company. Since the prosecution involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the process is highly centralized. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements and feedback of this examiner within the medical devices field. The current state of the portfolio reflects a narrow but clear prosecution path for the company's intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780546 | System for treatment of the eye | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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