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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Implant Solutions Pty Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, Edward John Moran, and 1 distinct art unit. Edward John Moran is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. The presence of only 1 pending action indicates a very focused area of current prosecution. This concentration suggests a specific technological or legal focus for the company's current medical device applications.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner, Edward John Moran, and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are highly specialized. Because the 1 pending office action is the only active matter, the examiner's specific procedural habits will be the primary factor in the case's progression. This centralized structure within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a streamlined and predictable prosecution experience. Practitioners can focus their resources on navigating the requirements of a single examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 41.8% | +61.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753928 | APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF A SCAN AND AN INTRAORAL SCANNING PROCEDURE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753928 | APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF A SCAN AND AN INTRAORAL SCANNING PROCEDURE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17753928 | APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING ACQUISITION OF A SCAN AND AN INTRAORAL SCANNING PROCEDURE | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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