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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Histologics LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated under a distinct examiner and a single art unit, indicating a specific focus for the portfolio at this stage.
The busiest examiner for the company is TOWA, RENE T, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This point of contact suggests that the current examination phase is centralized, requiring attention to the preferences of this individual examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.3% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17666730 | FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17666730 | FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2022 |
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