Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Incuvate LLC is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This high level of fragmentation for only 3 pending office actions indicates that each filing is being treated as a unique technical entity by the USPTO. The company must navigate the specific expectations and procedural norms of 3 distinct art units simultaneously.
LAUER, CHRISTINA C is the busiest examiner, though they only handle 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's decisions will dictate the success of the entire pending portfolio. However, the requirement to manage 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units adds complexity to the prosecution process, as each action requires a bespoke strategy tailored to its specific administrative environment. This distribution requires a high degree of coordination to ensure consistent outcomes across the 3 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.7% |
| DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 1 | 52.1% | +15.7% |
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18772813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF THROMBOSIS | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 79d overdue |
| 18488900 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASPIRATION AND MONITORING | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 9d |
| 18353077 | ASPIRATION MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF THROMBOSIS | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18488900 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASPIRATION AND MONITORING | DANIEL, ANTARIUS S | 3783 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18353077 | ASPIRATION MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2023 |
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