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
Imu Corporation 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 highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow technical classification for the pending intellectual property. This concentration allows for a specialized approach to responding to office communications and managing legal resources effectively.
LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P serves as the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions for the firm, this individual is responsible for the entirety of the company's current workload before the office. Practitioners should monitor this specific examiner's patterns, as their decisions currently dictate the progress of the entire pending portfolio. The alignment of 1 examiner across 1 art unit simplifies the administrative tracking of these proceedings and ensures a consistent dialogue with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184367 | Processing Device, Program, Method, And Processing System | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184367 | Processing Device, Program, Method, And Processing System | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18184367 | Processing Device, Program, Method, And Processing System | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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