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
Honesties Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused prosecution effort at this stage. The concentration of the portfolio in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting activity is confined to a specific technical niche within the broader medical and mechanical engineering field.
LYNCH, MEGAN E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this is the only active case, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's prosecution workload. This direct relationship between the company and the examiner means that the outcome of the current portfolio depends on the interactions with this specific individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and past patterns of this examiner to navigate the pending matter effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091770 | GARMENT AND QUALITY INDICATION MEMBER | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091770 | GARMENT AND QUALITY INDICATION MEMBER | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091770 | GARMENT AND QUALITY INDICATION MEMBER | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
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