Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Btl Healthcare Technologies A S is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners indicates that the company cannot rely on a single examiner's history to predict outcomes across its current pending applications.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, showing some concentration of technical review compared to the 3 distinct examiners. SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, accounting for 1 of the 3 pending office actions currently active. Because the busiest examiner only holds 1 pending office action, the workload is perfectly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback, as the 3 pending office actions are subject to the independent interpretations of officials across the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 1 | 74.6% | +17.6% |
| SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 1 | 33.3% | +37.7% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17518243 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNATTENDED TREATMENT OF A PATIENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 71d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740678 | Method and device for microwave treatment | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17518243 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNATTENDED TREATMENT OF A PATIENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 71d overdue |
| 18439561 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE TREATMENT | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 2d overdue |
| 18740678 | Method and device for microwave treatment | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740678 | Method and device for microwave treatment | SHOULDERS, ANNIE LEE | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18439561 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE TREATMENT | SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN | 3792 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 17518243 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNATTENDED TREATMENT OF A PATIENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Nov 03, 2021 |
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