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
Dash Ip LLC manages a company patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio contains 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in a single administrative location.
MENSH, ANDREW J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this specific examiner is handling all active matters at the patent office.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter of the portfolio is specialized within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. For a patent practitioner, the fact that there is only 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for multiple examiner temperaments. Instead, the outcome for the active matter relies solely on the specific requirements and interpretations of MENSH, ANDREW J.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENSH, ANDREW J | 1 | 64.3% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17940255 | CATHETER COVER FOR URINARY CATHETER | MENSH, ANDREW J | 114d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17940255 | CATHETER COVER FOR URINARY CATHETER | MENSH, ANDREW J | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial