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
Christian Medical College currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The institution's prosecution activity is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Christopher E Miller is the busiest examiner, holding the pending office action. As the total number of pending actions is 1, this specific examiner is responsible for the college's entire active workload in this sector.
This indicates a centralized prosecution effort where all current progress depends on the review of this individual at the USPTO. Practitioners should consider the examiner's typical turnaround times and preferences when advising the college on its medical device strategy. The singular focus in the art unit suggests a targeted approach to their mechanical engineering intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562611 | MODULAR AND PORTABLE PLUG-AND-TRAIN ROBOT FOR PROVIDING HAND REHABILITATION | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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