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
BIO HEALTH FRONTIERS, INC. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows that this matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current patent office activity is focused on a single specific technological development. This concentration indicates that the company is not currently diversifying its filings across multiple examiners or departments. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit involved centralizes the administrative requirements for the pending matter.
The busiest examiner, FREHE, WILLIAM R, manages 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner indicates that the prosecution is confined to a single individual's review. For practitioners, the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is the only matter currently requiring attention, meaning that the progress of the portfolio is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998640 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A USER FROM A SHARP TIP OF A MEDICAL NEEDLE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998640 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A USER FROM A SHARP TIP OF A MEDICAL NEEDLE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17998640 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A USER FROM A SHARP TIP OF A MEDICAL NEEDLE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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