Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Episurf Ip-Management AB currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being handled by a different person. Furthermore, the matters are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of technical classifications for these actions. MARCIA LYNN WATKINS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action assigned.
Because each of the 3 pending office actions is with a different examiner, the prosecution experience is decentralized. The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that while the primary technology area is Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, the specific inventions are diverse enough to trigger multiple unit assignments. Practitioners should prepare for 3 unique examination approaches, as no single examiner holds more than 1 pending case. This 3 to 3 ratio between pending actions and distinct examiners is a defining characteristic of the current portfolio state.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 1 | 61.0% | +38.8% |
| LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1 | 81.8% | -3.3% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098985 | CREATION OF A HEALTHIER PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17952439 | STANDARDIZED IMPLANT WITH INDIVIDUALIZED GUIDE TOOL | BATES, DAVID W | 34d |
| 18695801 | METATARSAL IMPLANT | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18695801 | METATARSAL IMPLANT | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 3774 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18098985 | CREATION OF A HEALTHIER PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT | LIN, JESSICA YIFANG | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 17952439 | STANDARDIZED IMPLANT WITH INDIVIDUALIZED GUIDE TOOL | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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