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
Blatek Industries Inc. shows 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is assigned to the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit. JAMES F MCDONALD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The pending office action represents the current state of the company's efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Because the distinct examiner is the sole official involved, the prosecution path is streamlined. JAMES F MCDONALD manages the busiest examiner pending action, making his review the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. The use of the distinct art unit suggests a specific technical classification for the underlying invention. Practitioners can monitor the examiner's recent allowance rates to better predict the timeline for this specific matter. The narrow focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector indicates a highly specialized patenting strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.1% | +42.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690699 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSIENT TISSUE TEMPERATURE MODULATION | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690699 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSIENT TISSUE TEMPERATURE MODULATION | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690699 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSIENT TISSUE TEMPERATURE MODULATION | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
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