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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Devaraj Pyne currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is localized to a distinct examiner and a single art unit, which simplifies the administrative oversight of the portfolio.
The busiest examiner is HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN, who is managing 1 pending office action. With only a single examiner involved, the success of the pending application relies on addressing the specific feedback and requirements of this individual within their respective art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.4% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17666199 | DETACHABLE BALLOON EMBOLIZATION DEVICE AND METHODS | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17666199 | DETACHABLE BALLOON EMBOLIZATION DEVICE AND METHODS | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
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