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
Industrie Biomediche Insubri SA has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. It is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, showing a concentrated prosecution focus. This suggests that the company's current filing is being reviewed by a specialized group within the medical devices division.
THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the company's only pending matter, making them the sole point of contact for the portfolio's immediate outcomes. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be finely tuned to the specific technical requirements of this individual. The presence of only a single pending office action reflects a very targeted and limited engagement with the patent office in the biomedical sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280757 | SCAFFOLD FOR BONE REGENERATION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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