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
BMZ. inc is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution profile shows 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in these proceedings. This indicates a path of examination for the current pending matter. Working within 1 art unit provides the applicant with a consistent environment for their current intellectual property development in the medical field.
The busiest examiner, LYNCH, MEGAN E, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the portfolio only contains 1 pending office action in total, LYNCH, MEGAN E is the official reviewing the company's active applications. Prosecution success for the applicant at this stage relies on the interactions within this art unit and with this specific examiner. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's past actions to anticipate potential hurdles in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17262337 | SHOE INSOLE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17262337 | SHOE INSOLE | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2021 |
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