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
Dominika Vavrousova is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, GANEY, STEVEN J. The prosecution is further localized within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the current legal efforts are focused on a specific technical specialty within the medical and mechanical fields.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GANEY, STEVEN J, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. As the only examiner involved in the pending affairs, this individual has a significant influence over the immediate direction of the intellectual property strategy. Practitioners should prioritize a clear and direct line of communication with the assigned examiner to resolve the current matter effectively.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a very focused and centralized prosecution profile. Without the involvement of multiple examiners or different technical groups, the current efforts are concentrated on a single point of review. Future activity may see an expansion into various art units, but for now, the focus remains entirely on the interaction with GANEY, STEVEN J regarding the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANEY, STEVEN J | 1 | 82.2% | +10.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846629 | DEVICE FOR COOLING THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846629 | DEVICE FOR COOLING THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE | GANEY, STEVEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846629 | DEVICE FOR COOLING THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE | GANEY, STEVEN J | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
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