Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Excelsior Medical Corporation is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current patent activity spans different specialized examination groups. This distribution requires the applicant to manage different technical standards and timelines across the art units involved in their current filings.
The portfolio involves multiple distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. STIGELL, THEODORE J is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution means no particular examiner currently dominates the prosecution landscape for the company. With multiple examiners each handling a particular case, the company must tailor its advocacy to the specific preferences of each individual within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The 2 pending office actions represent a balanced workload across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
| OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 1 | 78.5% | +11.3% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817779 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| 18778781 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817779 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18778781 | ANTISEPTIC CAP | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 17830183 | CAPS TO PROVIDE A PHYSICAL BARRIER TO AN ACCESS SITE OF A MEDICAL CONNECTOR | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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