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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Front Line Medical Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution strategy for the company's current application. This concentration allows the applicant to address the specific technical critiques of 1 reviewer without competing priorities.
The prosecution is active within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the matter is governed by the specific policies of that technical group. TANNER, JOCELIN C is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the entire pending portfolio is limited to 1 examiner in 1 art unit, the applicant can manage their USPTO interactions through a single point of contact.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.2% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19177897 | Devices and Method for Blood Vessel Occlusion | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19177897 | Devices and Method for Blood Vessel Occlusion | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
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