Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Exocad GmbH has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the technology is concentrated in 2 specific groups, the individual applications are being reviewed by different personnel. Such a distribution suggests that the company's medical device innovations may cover a range of sub-technologies that require different examiner expertise.
The busiest examiner, MORAN, EDWARD JOHN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the workload is distributed. This distribution across art units means that the company must manage multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously. While the volume of pending actions is relatively low, the involvement of distinct examiners requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistent claim language and prosecution strategy across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 1 | 14.3% | +100.0% |
| SHERALI, ISHRAT I | 1 | 93.2% | +6.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196745 | CORRECTING RELATIVE TOOTH POSITIONS OF ANTAGONISTIC TEETH | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 34d |
| 18101831 | DETERMINING PARAMETERS OF ORTHO-RESTORATIVE MEASURES | SHERALI, ISHRAT I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196745 | CORRECTING RELATIVE TOOTH POSITIONS OF ANTAGONISTIC TEETH | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18196745 | CORRECTING RELATIVE TOOTH POSITIONS OF ANTAGONISTIC TEETH | WEBB LYTTLE, ADRIENA JONIQUE | 3772 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 18101831 | DETERMINING PARAMETERS OF ORTHO-RESTORATIVE MEASURES | SHERALI, ISHRAT I | 1687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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