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
Impel Ip LLC currently faces 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by a single distinct examiner, which simplifies the coordination required for the company's legal representatives. The prosecution is localized within a single distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical niche for the underlying invention and a targeted approach to its intellectual property filings.
The busiest examiner, BAYS, PAMELA M, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since this examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending workload, the prosecution strategy can be tailored specifically to the examiner's history and tendencies. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector ensures that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single point of review. Practitioners should prioritize addressing the specific prior art and claim objections raised by this individual to advance the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 71.7% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107688 | INTEGRATED MECHATRONIC SYSTEM FOR MANAGING OPHTHALMOLOGY SURGERIES UNDER THE FREE HANDS AND FEET CONCEPT THROUGH EXECUTION OF VOICE COMMANDS | BAYS, PAMELA M | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107688 | INTEGRATED MECHATRONIC SYSTEM FOR MANAGING OPHTHALMOLOGY SURGERIES UNDER THE FREE HANDS AND FEET CONCEPT THROUGH EXECUTION OF VOICE COMMANDS | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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