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
Dj Medical LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. BHISMA MEHTA is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution profile is highly concentrated. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit means that the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the review of BHISMA MEHTA. This focus within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates a specific technical niche. Practitioners should tailor their prosecution strategy to the known tendencies of the examiner and the specific standards of the assigned art unit. The limited number of pending actions suggests a selective filing strategy or a portfolio in its early stages of development. Successfully addressing the 1 pending office action is critical for the company's intellectual property position in this technology 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEHTA, BHISMA | 1 | 58.6% | +43.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433218 | Self-Administered Injection Device And Method | MEHTA, BHISMA | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433218 | Self-Administered Injection Device And Method | MEHTA, BHISMA | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18433218 | Self-Administered Injection Device And Method | MEHTA, BHISMA | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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