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
D-Bar Enterprises LLC maintains a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing that the company's current prosecution is focused on a single matter.
NELSON, KERI JESSICA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio has only 1 pending office action, this individual is the sole examiner currently processing the company's active applications. This 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the portfolio's current activity.
With 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action, the prosecution landscape is straightforward. Practitioners should concentrate on the 1 pending office action managed by NELSON, KERI JESSICA. This matter is the only active component of the portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.5% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505721 | ORTHOTIC CLUBFOOT DEVICE AND METHOD | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18505721 | ORTHOTIC CLUBFOOT DEVICE AND METHOD | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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