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
Corinnova Incorporated has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is under the review of a distinct examiner in a distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent strategy is specialized within the medical device sector, with no active matters currently pending in other technical fields.
The busiest examiner, WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE, is handling the 1 pending office action. As the examiner for the company's active matters, this individual's perspective on the technology will be the deciding factor in the prosecution. Understanding this examiner's specific approach to medical device claims is vital for a successful outcome. The examiner's prior work in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area provides a baseline for the current examination.
The presence of the distinct art unit ensures that the company is subject to a uniform set of examination criteria. This lack of departmental variety simplifies the administrative oversight of the active office action. The current prosecution profile is characterized by its singular focus and lack of distribution, which allows for a concentrated effort on this specific application.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 1 | 49.8% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17765661 | Direct Cardiac Compression Device with Improved Durability | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17765661 | Direct Cardiac Compression Device with Improved Durability | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17765661 | Direct Cardiac Compression Device with Improved Durability | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
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