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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Catalyst Orthoscience Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a very specific technical and personnel focus for the company's current prosecution. The concentration of the portfolio within a single art unit indicates that the company's current patent efforts are directed toward a specialized area of medical device technology. This allows the company to tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific examination practices of that art unit.
LE, KHOA TAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active for the company. Since there is only 1 pending action, the company's immediate success in obtaining patent protection depends on the interaction with this specific examiner. This singular focus simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the company only needs to address the concerns and requirements of 1 examiner at this time. The outcome of this action will be a key indicator for the company's intellectual property progress in the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 78.0% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211200 | TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211200 | TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2025 |
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