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
Costa Surgical Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The matter is being reviewed by a distinct examiner, SIPP, AMY R., who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The presence of only a single pending office action indicates a low volume of current prosecution activity. Since the action is assigned to the identified examiner, the company's immediate intellectual property goals are tied to the decisions of SIPP, AMY R. This concentration means there is no examiner diversification within the active portfolio.
For a practitioner, the data shows that the company's entire active pipeline consists of this single pending action. The use of the art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests the technology is highly specialized. The outcome of this matter will determine the immediate success of the company's current patenting efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067949 | FRACTURE PLATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067949 | FRACTURE PLATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067949 | FRACTURE PLATING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Mar 02, 2025 |
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