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
Boudjema-Rassman Partnership is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific area of innovation for the partnership. Having 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy can be highly focused on the specific prior art and legal interpretations favored by that individual. This can streamline the process of responding to the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LONG, SARAH A, who is assigned the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is the official currently reviewing the partnership's pending work, so their feedback is the primary driver of the prosecution. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the partnership can maintain a consistent technical narrative across its medical device claims. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action will depend on addressing the specific objections raised by this 1 examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304811 | IMPLANTATION DEVICE WITH DIRECT-TO-NEEDLE ASPIRATION OF HAIR GRAFT | LONG, SARAH A | 42d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304811 | IMPLANTATION DEVICE WITH DIRECT-TO-NEEDLE ASPIRATION OF HAIR GRAFT | LONG, SARAH A | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18304811 | IMPLANTATION DEVICE WITH DIRECT-TO-NEEDLE ASPIRATION OF HAIR GRAFT | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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