Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH, INC. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. ROCHELLE DEANNA TURCHEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one matter. This distribution indicates that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. The 2 distinct art units suggest that each action is being reviewed within a different technical group. ROCHELLE DEANNA TURCHEN is one of the two individuals managing the current workload in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
Because the 2 pending office actions are located in 2 distinct art units, the technical focus of the portfolio is divided. The prosecution team must manage relationships with 2 distinct examiners, including ROCHELLE DEANNA TURCHEN. Each of these 2 distinct examiners handles 1 pending office action. This arrangement requires a strategy that addresses the individual preferences of both examiners while operating across different art units. The 1 pending office action managed by ROCHELLE DEANNA TURCHEN represents half of the company's active matters.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 1 | 57.5% | +29.0% |
| BREDEFELD, RACHAEL EVA | 1 | 27.4% | +35.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260185 | WEIGHT BEARING COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE | BREDEFELD, RACHAEL EVA | 189d overdue |
| 19244206 | ERGONOMIC AND SAFE ULTRASOUND PROBE HANDLE SYSTEM AND METHOD | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260185 | WEIGHT BEARING COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE | BREDEFELD, RACHAEL EVA | 189d overdue |
| 19244206 | ERGONOMIC AND SAFE ULTRASOUND PROBE HANDLE SYSTEM AND METHOD | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19244206 | ERGONOMIC AND SAFE ULTRASOUND PROBE HANDLE SYSTEM AND METHOD | TURCHEN, ROCHELLE DEANNA | 3797 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 18260185 | WEIGHT BEARING COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE | BREDEFELD, RACHAEL EVA | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 189d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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