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
Foot Innovations LLC is currently overseeing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates a very specific and narrow focus for the company's current patent activities, with no current overlap across multiple examiners.
The busiest examiner for the company is JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T, who is handling the 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is responsible for the only active action in the portfolio, the company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space is tied to this specific review process. This provides a clear path for prosecution strategy under JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current patent portfolio shows no signs of broad technological dispersion at this time. The focus remains entirely on the specific application under review. This concentration simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications for the current 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594351 | RETRACTOR DEVICE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 253d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594351 | RETRACTOR DEVICE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 253d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594351 | RETRACTOR DEVICE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 253d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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