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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BILLDON, LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution landscape is concentrated, with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. This suggests that the company's active patent matters are being handled by a single administrative unit at the patent office. In the medical device field, having a single examiner and art unit can be advantageous for maintaining a consistent narrative regarding the device's mechanical features and clinical utility during the prosecution process.
MEGAN E LYNCH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for the total of 1 pending office action for the company. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused prosecution strategy for the current medical device filings. For the practitioner, this means that all efforts can be directed toward satisfying the requirements of this one examiner. This singular focus can help in developing a more effective response to the office action, as there is no need to reconcile different examiner viewpoints or navigate multiple technical departments within the patent 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294970 | SHOE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294970 | SHOE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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