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
Certus Critical Care Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM. The portfolio's current prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a concentrated technical focus.
HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current filings. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to understanding the specific examination style of HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is being reviewed within a specialized group at the patent office. This streamlined prosecution profile, featuring 1 pending office action, suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property. The alignment between the 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit suggests a simplified administrative path for the company's current legal efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.4% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17842729 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FLUID DELIVERY | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17842729 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FLUID DELIVERY | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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