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
Choice B V is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This indicates a specific focus on securing intellectual property for their medical or mechanical technologies.
The examination process is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the technical scope of the company's filings fits within a single classification. Such a structure simplifies the management of examiner communications and procedural requirements.
MILO, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently assigned. This examiner handles the entirety of the company's active prosecution workload. The outcome of the current patent application depends on the specific feedback and decisions of this one examiner.
The direct relationship with 1 distinct examiner simplifies the communication strategy for the applicant. Because the company is managing 1 pending office action, legal efforts can be highly focused. This structure avoids the complexities associated with navigating multiple distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILO, MICHAEL | 1 | 50.8% | +52.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18023203 | IMPLANTABLE TUBE VALVE | MILO, MICHAEL | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18023203 | IMPLANTABLE TUBE VALVE | MILO, MICHAEL | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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