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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imi Defense Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The data shows that 1 distinct art unit is involved in the review of this pending matter. This single action constitutes the entire current pending workload for the company, indicating a very specific and focused prosecution effort in the medical device field.
LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner is responsible for all current pending prosecution activity for the company. The use of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests that the company's current patent office interactions are highly centralized for this application.
Focusing on the specific examination style of this single examiner may be beneficial for the company's prosecution strategy. Practitioners should also consider the broader trends within the 1 distinct art unit to ensure the application meets all technical and procedural standards.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807520 | Holster | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807520 | Holster | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807520 | Holster | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
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