Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inmode Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. The company's prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual, providing examiner diversity within the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is VOORHEES, CATHERINE M. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents one-third of the 3 pending office actions currently active for the company. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions indicates that each examiner is currently handling exactly one matter for the applicant. Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units involved will provide the technical framework for these 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.7% | +22.6% |
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 1 | 74.7% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604694 | COMBINED RF FRACTIONAL AND NON-FRACTIONAL TREATMENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 26d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604694 | COMBINED RF FRACTIONAL AND NON-FRACTIONAL TREATMENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 26d overdue |
| 18431250 | VAGINAL REMODELING DEVICE AND METHODS | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 42d |
| 18059443 | RF FRACTIONAL DEVICE WITH UNIFORM EFFECT AROUND THE CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS | COLLINS, SEAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908835 | FRACTIONAL TREATMENT OF CERVIX | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18604694 | COMBINED RF FRACTIONAL AND NON-FRACTIONAL TREATMENT | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18431250 | VAGINAL REMODELING DEVICE AND METHODS | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18059443 | RF FRACTIONAL DEVICE WITH UNIFORM EFFECT AROUND THE CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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