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 • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hill-Rom Services, Inc. shows 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, though they are contained within 1 distinct art unit.
TOICH, SARA KATHERINE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. While the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates the technical focus for the current applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413410 | HIGH FREQUENCY CHEST WALL OSCILLATION THERAPY APPARATUS HAVING VARYING BASELINE PRESSURE | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413410 | HIGH FREQUENCY CHEST WALL OSCILLATION THERAPY APPARATUS HAVING VARYING BASELINE PRESSURE | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — |
| 18168654 | IMAGE BASED LUNG AUSCULTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413410 | HIGH FREQUENCY CHEST WALL OSCILLATION THERAPY APPARATUS HAVING VARYING BASELINE PRESSURE | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18168654 | IMAGE BASED LUNG AUSCULTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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