Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.5% | -8.4% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 1 | 58.0% | +36.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19318140 | MODULAR DRIVE UNIT AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054227 | MAGNETICALLY ACTUATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS SURGICAL PROCEDURES | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 19054215 | ARC LIFTER DISTRACTION ADJUSTOR FOR DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054227 | MAGNETICALLY ACTUATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS SURGICAL PROCEDURES | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 19054215 | ARC LIFTER DISTRACTION ADJUSTOR FOR DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19318140 | MODULAR DRIVE UNIT AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 19054227 | MAGNETICALLY ACTUATED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS SURGICAL PROCEDURES | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19054215 | ARC LIFTER DISTRACTION ADJUSTOR FOR DISTRACTION HISTOGENESIS | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 3775 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
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