Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gt Medical Technologies Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is handling a single action. Despite the involvement of three different individuals, all 3 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high degree of technical concentration in the company's current patent filings.
REDDY, SUNITA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is balanced with one action per person. For a practitioner, the presence of 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit is significant. It suggests that while the 3 pending office actions are technically similar enough to be in the same unit, the company will receive feedback from three different perspectives, potentially leading to varied prosecution experiences.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.3% | +61.0% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17233836 | RADIOACTIVE SEED LOADING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 14d |
| 18747335 | RADIATION SHIELDING APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTABLE RADIOACTIVE SEEDS | REDDY, SUNITA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17233836 | RADIOACTIVE SEED LOADING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 14d |
| 18747335 | RADIATION SHIELDING APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTABLE RADIOACTIVE SEEDS | REDDY, SUNITA | — |
| 17698385 | CUSTOM BRACHYTHERAPY CARRIERS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18747335 | RADIATION SHIELDING APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTABLE RADIOACTIVE SEEDS | REDDY, SUNITA | 3791 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 17698385 | CUSTOM BRACHYTHERAPY CARRIERS | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17233836 | RADIOACTIVE SEED LOADING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 19, 2021 |
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