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
BONE FOAM, INC. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MILO, MICHAEL. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a highly focused and singular point of contact within the patent office for this specific portfolio.
MILO, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action currently on record. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the entire prosecution profile for BONE FOAM, INC. is concentrated under this individual. This creates a direct relationship between the company and the 1 distinct art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
With only 1 pending office action, the scope of current activity is limited to the oversight of the busiest examiner. The 1 distinct art unit represents the entirety of the technical environment for this action. Practitioners can focus their attention exclusively on the examination patterns of MILO, MICHAEL to understand the current status of the BONE FOAM, INC. portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILO, MICHAEL | 1 | 50.8% | +52.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19122194 | POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR PRONE POSITION | MILO, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19122194 | POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR PRONE POSITION | MILO, MICHAEL | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
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