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
Braile Biomedica Industria Comercio E Representaco operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Their current prosecution profile includes 1 pending office action. This activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit and assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a specific focus for their pending intellectual property. This concentration shows that the company is not currently managing a broad array of active cases across different units.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is MANNAN, MIKAIL A, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action for the company, meaning this examiner is handling the entirety of the portfolio's active examination. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's immediate legal strategy in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is highly centralized.
Practitioners observing this portfolio will see that the 1 pending office action represents the total current interaction with the USPTO. With MANNAN, MIKAIL A as the assigned examiner, the company's progress depends on a single review process. The data reflects a portfolio that is not yet diversified, requiring a focused approach to the 1 busiest examiner pending workload to ensure successful patent issuance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18229408 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR A BALLOON-EXPANDABLE TRANSCATHETER VALVE IMPLANTATION | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18229408 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR A BALLOON-EXPANDABLE TRANSCATHETER VALVE IMPLANTATION | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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