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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hermes Innovations LLC is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing different reviewers for each case. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a consistent technical classification for the filings. This alignment within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology is being reviewed by a single specialized group.
HOUGH, JESSANDRA F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each reviewer is responsible for a case. This allows the company to monitor separate prosecution tracks within a technical department. The involvement of distinct examiners ensures that HOUGH, JESSANDRA F does not manage the entire portfolio.
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%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17223883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING LIPS AND SKIN | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 35d |
| 18954171 | SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954171 | SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 17223883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING LIPS AND SKIN | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 3785 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 06, 2021 |
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