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
Cryoconcepts LP focuses its patenting efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action at this time. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The current state of prosecution is centralized, with all active matters consolidated under a lone administrative path within the medical devices field. Such a streamlined administrative structure allows for a more direct management of the company's active intellectual property assets.
SMITH, PETER DANIEL is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this examiner is the only official currently reviewing the company's active applications, the portfolio allows for a focused engagement with the specific art unit involved. The success of the company's current intellectual property strategy relies on navigating the specific requirements of this examiner, as they hold the only active matter for the entity. Legal counsel should prioritize the specific feedback provided by this examiner, as their individual review currently dictates the progress of the entire pending portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 1 | 50.6% | +51.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17186762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ENHANCED DELIVERY OF TOPICAL SUBSTANCES | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17186762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ENHANCED DELIVERY OF TOPICAL SUBSTANCES | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2021 |
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