Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gi Scientific LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a variety of mechanical or medical applications. The portfolio is assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning no two pending actions are currently with the same examiner. This approach across 3 distinct art units requires managing multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously.
CARLSON, MARC is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners and 5 pending office actions, the prosecution is decentralized at the individual level. The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that while the examiners are all different, some may be working within the same technical groups. Practitioners must adapt to 5 different examiner styles to successfully advance the 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 2 | 63.9% | +18.3% |
| CARLSON, MARC | 1 | 71.0% | +23.3% |
| GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 1 | 62.0% | +29.3% |
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 1 | 77.8% | +13.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17786296 | OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR ENDOSCOPE COMPANION DEVICES | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 35d overdue |
| 18938650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRYING ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES | CARLSON, MARC | — |
| 18481527 | VARIABLE PRESSURE CLEANING DEVICE AND METHOD | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17936882 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR AN ENDOSCOPIC DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 24d overdue |
| 17195479 | MATTER MANIPULATOR WITH CONDUCTIVE COATING | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 8d |
| 18938650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRYING ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES | CARLSON, MARC | — |
| 18481527 | VARIABLE PRESSURE CLEANING DEVICE AND METHOD | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | — |
| 17995291 | ENDOSCOPE COMPANION DEVICES WITH LOCKING ELEMENTS | HENDERSON, RYAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 4 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938650 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRYING ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES | CARLSON, MARC | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18481527 | VARIABLE PRESSURE CLEANING DEVICE AND METHOD | GUIDOTTI, LAURA COLE | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 17995291 | ENDOSCOPE COMPANION DEVICES WITH LOCKING ELEMENTS | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17936882 | ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR AN ENDOSCOPIC DEVICE | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17786296 | OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR ENDOSCOPE COMPANION DEVICES | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
| 17195479 | MATTER MANIPULATOR WITH CONDUCTIVE COATING | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Mar 08, 2021 |
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