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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Encore Medical, L.P. is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a very narrow scope of current interaction with the patent office. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a focused examination phase for the company's current applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized under this specific examiner's review within the designated 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's current patent activity depends entirely on the evaluation of this 1 distinct examiner. This streamlined structure allows for a direct and focused engagement with the patent office during the examination of the company's medical device technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 1 | 58.0% | +36.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899590 | PARTIAL KNEE IMPLANTS AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899590 | PARTIAL KNEE IMPLANTS AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899590 | PARTIAL KNEE IMPLANTS AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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