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
Heather Margaret Anderson currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ALLEN, JEFFREY R. The prosecution is active in 1 distinct art unit. ALLEN, JEFFREY R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single pending action is the only current matter for the portfolio, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under a single official allows for a focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners should tailor their technical arguments to the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Since the work is limited to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, the examiner likely possesses specialized knowledge relevant to the application. The presence of 1 distinct examiner means that all feedback is consolidated, which can facilitate more direct negotiations during the patent acquisition process. This prosecution structure provides a clear path for the applicant's current intellectual property efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839694 | AN ANTI-ROTATION MEMBER FOR ELONGATE ITEMS | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839694 | AN ANTI-ROTATION MEMBER FOR ELONGATE ITEMS | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839694 | AN ANTI-ROTATION MEMBER FOR ELONGATE ITEMS | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
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