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
Cervos Medical LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution for the company is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. HENSON, DEVIN B is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific mechanical or medical focus for the company's current intellectual property.
Because the portfolio contains 1 pending office action, the immediate workload is consolidated under 1 distinct examiner, simplifying the administrative tracking of these medical device filings. This allows the legal team to focus on the technical arguments required to overcome the objections in the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's past behavior in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to better predict the likely path to allowance. The concentration of the portfolio in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is specialized and does not overlap with other engineering fields.
With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's prosecution strategy is inherently focused. The success of the current patenting effort depends on the interaction with HENSON, DEVIN B, who serves as the examiner for the company's active filings. This focused approach can be advantageous, as it allows for a consistent and targeted dialogue with the USPTO. The resolution of this 1 pending office action is the critical step for the company's mechanical engineering portfolio at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.0% | +43.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18049422 | Apparatus And Methods For Aspirating Tissue | HENSON, DEVIN B | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18049422 | Apparatus And Methods For Aspirating Tissue | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
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