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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanger Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a focused prosecution effort at this stage, requiring the applicant to navigate the specific requirements of a single examination group. Practitioners should prepare for a streamlined interaction, as the legal strategy does not currently need to account for varying interpretations across different departments.
ZIAUL KARIM serves as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner handles the current workload that constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action before the patent office. Because the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural standards of that department. Success in this matter depends on understanding the specific examination style of this individual and the precedents established within their particular technical group.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARIM, ZIAUL | 1 | 81.9% | +21.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594873 | ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | KARIM, ZIAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594873 | ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | KARIM, ZIAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594873 | ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND METHOD | KARIM, ZIAUL | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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