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
Gordian Surgical Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a singular focus for the company's current surgical technology prosecution. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will determine the immediate progress of the company's mechanical engineering patent portfolio.
KHANDKER, RAIHAN R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the company only has 1 pending office action, this examiner is the sole individual currently evaluating their medical device filings. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the prosecution is centralized within a specific engineering group. This structure can be advantageous as it allows the applicant to tailor their technical arguments to the specific standards of 1 distinct art unit and the expectations of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 1 | 64.2% | +57.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988073 | TROCAR INCISION CLOSURE KIT AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988073 | TROCAR INCISION CLOSURE KIT AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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