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
Gensano LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN. The active prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specialized technical focus for the company's current filings. Such concentration allows for a streamlined approach to addressing the examiner's technical requirements within the medical device sector.
The busiest examiner, WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN, is assigned 1 pending office action. This figure represents the total pending workload for the company, as there is only 1 distinct examiner involved. Practitioners should monitor the specific art unit and examiner to understand the likely trajectory of this application. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 indicates that the company's current patent strategy is entirely focused on the feedback and examination style of this single individual.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 1 | 61.0% | +38.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18055985 | CANNULATED BONE IMPLANT AND METHODS OF USE | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18055985 | CANNULATED BONE IMPLANT AND METHODS OF USE | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
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