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
Children'S Hospital Of Orange County is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The singular nature of this activity suggests a specific focus for the company's current patent filings, as all activity is localized to one administrative group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, BROWN, SETH RICHARD, is assigned 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total number of pending office actions for the company. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is subject to the standards of one specific administrative group. Practitioners should analyze the specific requirements of BROWN, SETH RICHARD to successfully navigate this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering case.
Because the busiest examiner, BROWN, SETH RICHARD, handles the 1 pending office action, there is no internal data to compare examiner behavior within the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit creates a centralized prosecution environment. Success for this company depends on tailoring the approach to the specific requirements and interpretive style of this single official in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555721 | INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT DAMPENING DEVICE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555721 | INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT DAMPENING DEVICE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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