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
Brent Felix has 1 pending office action currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration is typical for a specialized portfolio where the current workload is focused on a single technical advancement within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner, LANE, HOLLY JOANNA, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 distinct examiner involved in the portfolio, the entirety of the current prosecution strategy is directed toward LANE, HOLLY JOANNA. The fact that the 1 pending office action is housed within 1 distinct art unit means that the examination will follow the specific guidelines of that particular group.
Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific expertise of LANE, HOLLY JOANNA to successfully navigate the 1 pending office action. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a clear path for prosecution, as there are no competing examiner perspectives to manage. This focused profile allows for an efficient approach to addressing the requirements of the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 1 | 80.5% | +16.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129130 | POROUS INTERBODY IMPLANT | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129130 | POROUS INTERBODY IMPLANT | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18129130 | POROUS INTERBODY IMPLANT | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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