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
Contraline Inc. is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a narrow focus for the company's current intellectual property activities. Having 1 distinct art unit involved means the technical review is confined to a specific section of the patent office. This centralization can simplify the management of the application as it progresses through the examination process.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PRICE, NATHAN R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the entire pending workload for Contraline Inc. as shown in the data. With 1 distinct examiner overseeing the matter, the company can develop a targeted strategy based on the specific feedback of PRICE, NATHAN R. The concentration of the portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a consistent approach to the technical arguments presented. Practitioners should monitor the specific timelines of this examiner to ensure timely responses to the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 53.4% | +38.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING BIOMATERIAL IMPLANTS | PRICE, NATHAN R | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17923115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING BIOMATERIAL IMPLANTS | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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