Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cosman Instruments LLC manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which provides the company with a small degree of variety in examiner perspectives. However, both matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a unified technical focus for the company's active filings. For practitioners, this means that while the technical standards remain consistent, the legal strategy must be adapted to the individual preferences of multiple reviewers.
GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY is responsible for half of the company's 2 pending office actions. For the applicant, this distribution suggests that while the technical field is consistent across the 1 art unit, the company must navigate the specific review styles of 2 different examiners to advance its current intellectual property goals. This split workload allows for a comparison of examiner behaviors within the same technical division, which can inform future filing strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345487 | ELECTROSURGICAL GENERATOR | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 112d overdue |
| 18462898 | ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462898 | ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18345487 | ELECTROSURGICAL GENERATOR | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 112d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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