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
Igea S P A operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This 1 active matter represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office. The focus on 1 action suggests a targeted approach to its intellectual property development in this sector.
The prosecution of this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW is the sole point of contact for the company's pending matters. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the review of this specific individual.
Additionally, the data indicates that the portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with the existing examiner and pending action confirms a streamlined prosecution footprint. For practitioners, this means that understanding the specific art unit's standards and the examiner's past behavior is the primary requirement for navigating the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18470774 | ELECTROPORATION DEVICE | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18470774 | ELECTROPORATION DEVICE | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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