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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crossroads Extremity Systems LLC has 1 pending office action currently under review. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio, which indicates a specific administrative status for the filing. With only 1 pending action in total, the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated under this single examiner.
The assignment of the 1 pending action to LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA means that all current legal correspondence is directed to one individual. This lack of 0 distinct art units suggests the matter may be in a preliminary or unique classification phase. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this single examiner to manage the company's current pending workload effectively.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 1 | 76.7% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264955 | BUNION CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18264955 | BUNION CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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