Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hexr Ltd. is currently prosecuting a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 3 pending office actions, which are distributed across 3 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that while the company has multiple active matters, each is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of examiner perspectives within the portfolio. This can be beneficial for diversifying the legal risks associated with examiner subjectivity.
Despite the variety of examiners, all pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technological focus for the portfolio's current activity. REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means the workload is evenly spread, with no single examiner holding a majority of the pending actions. For the practitioner, this requires managing three separate examiner relationships within the specific technical standards of the art unit.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | 1 | 41.2% | +35.5% |
| MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 1 | 66.6% | -10.7% |
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579370 | HELMET, PARTICULARLY CYCLING HELMET COMPRISING SPACERS TO REDUCE MECHANICAL LOCKING OF OPPOSING LAYERS OF THE HELMET, AND HELMET WITH REDUCED GEOMETRICAL LOCKING | REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | 29d |
| 17616549 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579370 | HELMET, PARTICULARLY CYCLING HELMET COMPRISING SPACERS TO REDUCE MECHANICAL LOCKING OF OPPOSING LAYERS OF THE HELMET, AND HELMET WITH REDUCED GEOMETRICAL LOCKING | REDHEAD, AKWOKWO OLABISI | 3732 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18253395 | A HELMET COMPRISING AN IMPACT MITIGATING STRUCTURE | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 3732 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 17616549 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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