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
Buck Surgical LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This prosecution activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical scope for the company's current filings. For a practitioner, this indicates a specific examination environment where outcomes depend on the interpretation of the assigned official.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LE, KHOA TAN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner pending count are both 1, this examiner currently oversees the entirety of the company's active prosecution. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects the current technical focus. Practitioners should prepare for a consistent examination style given that LE, KHOA TAN is the official currently engaged with the portfolio. Monitoring the progress of this 1 pending office action will provide insight into how the examiner views the company's medical device technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 78.0% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982317 | ANASTOMOTIC COUPLER | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982317 | ANASTOMOTIC COUPLER | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982317 | ANASTOMOTIC COUPLER | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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