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
Civco Medical Instruments Co., Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution is currently being conducted by 1 distinct examiner, representing a focused effort in this specific technological field. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
ASGHAR, AMINAH is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. This 1 busiest examiner pending action accounts for the current pending workload active for the portfolio. This centralization means that the assigned examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current prosecution needs. For the practitioner, this concentration within the specified administrative unit for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a consistent approach to the 1 pending office action currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASGHAR, AMINAH | 1 | 61.2% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670173 | ADHESIVE HYDROPHILIC PAD FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | ASGHAR, AMINAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18670173 | ADHESIVE HYDROPHILIC PAD FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER | ASGHAR, AMINAH | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
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