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
Current Surgical Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This action represents the current level of active engagement with the patent office for the company's medical device filings. For a practitioner, this indicates a focused prosecution stage where a single application is the primary administrative priority.
The filings are being reviewed by a distinct examiner across a single art unit. This suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated through a single administrative channel at the USPTO. ASGHAR, AMINAH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The use of a single art unit ensures that the company's medical device technologies are evaluated against a consistent set of prior art and examination standards.
ASGHAR, AMINAH is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only a single pending action overall, the review by ASGHAR, AMINAH is the sole focus of the company's current patenting activity. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific requirements of ASGHAR, AMINAH and the art unit involved to advance the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASGHAR, AMINAH | 1 | 61.2% | +46.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099240 | ULTRASOUND ABLATION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18099240 | ULTRASOUND ABLATION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE | ASGHAR, AMINAH | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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