Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Goruck Holdings LLC holds a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company is currently responding to 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the portfolio's active matters are not concentrated in a single administrative silo. This diversity in examiners and art units implies that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technical paths that require different types of specialized review from the patent office.
DEREK J BATTISTI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, BATTISTI manages 1 of the current matters. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 actions highlights a diverse range of technical classifications for the company's pending applications. The distribution of 2 pending office actions among 2 distinct examiners suggests a balanced distribution of work, where no single examiner has a majority share of the portfolio's active prosecution. Such a spread helps mitigate the risk of a single unfavorable examiner affecting the entire Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 1 | 51.4% | +36.0% |
| FISK, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 63.2% | +44.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18793688 | RUCKING ARTICLE | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 72d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18793688 | RUCKING ARTICLE | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 72d |
| 18588512 | FILLABLE RUCK PLATE | FISK, KATHLEEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18793688 | RUCKING ARTICLE | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18588512 | FILLABLE RUCK PLATE | FISK, KATHLEEN M | 3784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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