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
Carmenza Spadafora holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort within a specific mechanical or medical technical area.
MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently focused on a single examiner and art unit, which centralizes the current interactions with the patent office for these active filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17458101 | DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF MALARIA | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17458101 | DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF MALARIA | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17458101 | DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF MALARIA | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2021 |
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