Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Embrace Medical Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications. The single distinct art unit suggests that all current prosecution activity is being handled within one specialized division of the patent office.
Sristi Divina Gomes is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly divided. This structure provides multiple examiner perspectives on the active matters within the single distinct art unit. This centralized review process within one art unit allows for a consistent technical evaluation while still benefiting from the viewpoints of different examiners. Practitioners can expect a focused prosecution experience where all feedback originates from the same specialized division of the patent office.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | 1 | 25.0% | -33.3% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.4% | +44.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032030 | VASCULAR ACCESS KIT | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 53d |
| 19100430 | VASCULAR ACCESS WIRE TIP COMPRISING A CRANK | GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032030 | VASCULAR ACCESS KIT | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 53d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100430 | VASCULAR ACCESS WIRE TIP COMPRISING A CRANK | GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18032030 | VASCULAR ACCESS KIT | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
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