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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIONLIFESCIENCE, INC. maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of these figures suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the broader medical device field.
Jeffrey Gerben Hoekstra is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved in the company's current pending matters, Hoekstra serves as the primary point of contact for the prosecution of this intellectual property. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 reflects the singular nature of the company's current activity at the USPTO.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit handling the 1 pending office action, the prosecution profile is highly centralized. This lack of examiner variety may allow for a more predictable interaction, as there are no competing matters or different art unit standards to navigate. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the requirements of the 1 art unit and the specific preferences of Jeffrey Gerben Hoekstra.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19333291 | SAMPLE COLLECTION STICK | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19333291 | SAMPLE COLLECTION STICK | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2025 |
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