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
Everestmedica LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HURLEY, SHAUN R, who also serves as the company's busiest examiner. The presence of only 1 pending action suggests a highly focused or early-stage prosecution phase for the company's current filings in this technical field.
The administrative oversight for this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit. HURLEY, SHAUN R holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's active office action volume. This relationship between the pending action, the examiner, and the art unit indicates a streamlined interaction with the patent office. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact for the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering matters, as the distinct examiner manages the only pending office action available in the data.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 1 | 77.5% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680056 | METHOD OF MAKING A SURGICAL BRAID | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 70d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680056 | METHOD OF MAKING A SURGICAL BRAID | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | 70d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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