Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Clarus Medical LLC currently has 4 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a different administrative unit. The high ratio of art units to pending actions suggests that the company's communications technologies are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office.
CAREY, MICHAEL JAMES is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner managing 1 case. This high level of dispersion across 4 distinct art units requires the applicant to adapt to the specific styles of 4 different individuals, making a centralized prosecution strategy more difficult to implement within the Communications field. Practitioners must be prepared to address 4 unique sets of examiner feedback, as no single individual holds influence over more than 1 pending matter at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAREY, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 83.5% | +11.9% |
| JIA, XIN | 1 | 84.6% | +13.0% |
| SHIN, SOO JUNG | 1 | 87.1% | +16.2% |
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238086 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SCOPE | CAREY, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494573 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL INSPECTION DEVICE | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 43d overdue |
| 18494659 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM | JIA, XIN | 15d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17471578 | MEDICAL DEVICE CLEANING DEVICES AND METHODS | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 163d overdue |
| 18494573 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL INSPECTION DEVICE | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 43d overdue |
| 18494659 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM | JIA, XIN | 15d overdue |
| 19238086 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SCOPE | CAREY, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238086 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SCOPE | CAREY, MICHAEL JAMES | 3795 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 18494659 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM | JIA, XIN | 2663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 18494573 | MEDICAL DEVICE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL INSPECTION DEVICE | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
| 17471578 | MEDICAL DEVICE CLEANING DEVICES AND METHODS | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 163d overdue | Pending | Sep 10, 2021 |
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