Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Healthhub Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, but they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company is interacting with multiple individuals, the prosecution is administratively centralized within a single unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MAHROUKA, WASSIM, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners involved, the workload is split with each examiner managing 1 pending action. This means that MAHROUKA, WASSIM handles a portion of the company's current pending matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit may allow the company to apply a consistent procedural strategy. Practitioners should note that while the art unit is the same, the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners will still play a role. With 1 pending office action under MAHROUKA, WASSIM, the company must manage separate examiner relationships within the same administrative framework.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAHROUKA, WASSIM | 1 | 86.1% | +7.9% |
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 1 | 69.4% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258949 | DEVICE FOR MODELING CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND METHOD THEREOF | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258803 | CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 138d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258803 | CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 138d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258949 | DEVICE FOR MODELING CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND METHOD THEREOF | MAHROUKA, WASSIM | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18258803 | CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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