Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
As a company patent portfolio, Cossington Limited is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating a slightly broader technical footprint than a single-unit portfolio. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, including SHARMA, YASHITA, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different individual.
SHARMA, YASHITA is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed among the assigned staff. This arrangement requires the applicant to navigate the specific preferences of multiple examiners across 2 distinct art units. Successful prosecution will depend on addressing the unique requirements of each assigned examiner while maintaining consistency across the different art units involved to protect the overall intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.8% | +24.6% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.8% | +13.7% |
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.5% | +23.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18602027 | Femoral element of knee spacer | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554639 | Mold for the forming of a spacer device for the replacement of an articular prosthesis | BEHA, CAROLINE | 29d |
| 18495030 | Acetabular spacer device comprising a pharmaceutical substance | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554639 | Mold for the forming of a spacer device for the replacement of an articular prosthesis | BEHA, CAROLINE | 29d |
| 18602027 | Femoral element of knee spacer | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
| 18495030 | Acetabular spacer device comprising a pharmaceutical substance | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18602027 | Femoral element of knee spacer | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18495030 | Acetabular spacer device comprising a pharmaceutical substance | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18554639 | Mold for the forming of a spacer device for the replacement of an articular prosthesis | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
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