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
Biocomposites Limited is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property focus is on a specific medical device innovation. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company is engaging with a specialized group of examiners who are experts in this particular field of mechanical engineering.
The busiest examiner for the company is COLEY, ZADE JAMES, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. All current prosecution activity for the portfolio is consolidated under this single examiner, with no other pending matters being reviewed by other USPTO staff. Since the busiest examiner is only managing 1 pending office action, the portfolio is currently in a low-volume state. This allows for a very direct and focused prosecution effort, though it also means the company's immediate patent prospects depend on this examiner's review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.2% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606693 | BIO-RESORBABLE ORTHOPAEDIC LAG SCREW FOR SMALL BONE FRACTURE FIXATION | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606693 | BIO-RESORBABLE ORTHOPAEDIC LAG SCREW FOR SMALL BONE FRACTURE FIXATION | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606693 | BIO-RESORBABLE ORTHOPAEDIC LAG SCREW FOR SMALL BONE FRACTURE FIXATION | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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