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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Halo Med LLC is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution data shows 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the company at this time. This action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the pending claims. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated under a single reviewer's oversight.
The busiest examiner for the company is HULL, JAMES B, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure represents the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently recorded for the portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with 1 distinct examiner. The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field suggests that the company is pursuing a targeted intellectual property goal. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending office action under HULL, JAMES B simplifies the administrative tracking of the company's active filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547463 | ANATOMICAL HEAD AND NECK SIMULATOR APPARATUS | HULL, JAMES B | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18547463 | ANATOMICAL HEAD AND NECK SIMULATOR APPARATUS | HULL, JAMES B | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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