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
BFM Holdings, LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent interests are concentrated in a specific technical niche. This focus allows the applicant to navigate a singular set of art unit norms and technical expectations during the prosecution process without the need to reconcile differing examiner viewpoints.
The busiest examiner, BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT, is currently managing 1 pending office action. This individual represents the sole point of interaction between the company and the patent office for its pending matters. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is streamlined, requiring the applicant to navigate the specific tendencies of only 1 official. This lack of examiner diversity means that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the dialogue with BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT. Practitioners can focus on the specific precedents and examination patterns established by this examiner within the medical device field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049467 | LATTICE STRUCTURE IMPLANT AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 113d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049467 | LATTICE STRUCTURE IMPLANT AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 113d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049467 | LATTICE STRUCTURE IMPLANT AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 113d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
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