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
Engraft Technologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific prosecution focus, with 1 examiner and 1 art unit managing the 1 pending office action. This 1 to 1 to 1 relationship between the action, the examiner, and the art unit reflects a singular focus for the company's current patent strategy.
Practitioners should note that the outcome of this 1 pending office action will be determined solely by the standards of FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN and the specific practices of the 1 assigned art unit. There are no other pending actions in the portfolio to serve as a baseline for comparison. The concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area suggests a specific technical application that is currently the sole focus of the company's prosecution efforts. Success in this matter is essential, as it is the only active engagement with the patent office at this time. Tailoring the response to the known preferences of this 1 examiner is the most critical task for the prosecution team.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.1% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19307753 | HAIR TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY WITH GRAFT-ON-DEMAND PROCESSING OF FOLLICULAR UNITS | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19307753 | HAIR TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY WITH GRAFT-ON-DEMAND PROCESSING OF FOLLICULAR UNITS | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19307753 | HAIR TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY WITH GRAFT-ON-DEMAND PROCESSING OF FOLLICULAR UNITS | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
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