Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Capri Medical Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current medical device filings are being reviewed by different individuals within the same specialized group. The fact that both cases are in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technologies are closely related and subject to the same group-level standards.
The busiest examiner, JAFFRI, ZEHRA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners handles 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly split. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the precedents and preferences of the 1 distinct art unit handling the cases. This singular focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area indicates that the company's current patent efforts are likely directed toward a specific technological niche despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.8% | +51.8% |
| ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 1 | 66.2% | +58.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267020 | IMPLANT DELIVERY DEVICE | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 17d overdue |
| 18874846 | NEURAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267020 | IMPLANT DELIVERY DEVICE | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 17d overdue |
| 18874846 | NEURAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874846 | NEURAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18267020 | IMPLANT DELIVERY DEVICE | ADAM, MOHAMMED SOHAIL | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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