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
Innophys Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which simplifies the current oversight of the company's patent applications. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not have to manage multiple sets of examiner expectations. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a very targeted approach to the company's current intellectual property strategy in the medical device sector. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific technical arguments required by this 1 distinct examiner.
The busiest examiner, GREIG, THOMAS W, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single matter constitutes the total pending workload for the portfolio, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. Strategy should be focused on the specific examiner's historical actions to resolve the pending office action effectively. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the practitioner can dedicate all resources to understanding this individual's examination style. This focused approach is essential for navigating the specific technical and procedural requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREIG, THOMAS W | 1 | 74.7% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17597759 | HUMAN BODY SUPPORTING EXOSKELETON DEVICE | GREIG, THOMAS W | 146d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17597759 | HUMAN BODY SUPPORTING EXOSKELETON DEVICE | GREIG, THOMAS W | 146d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17597759 | HUMAN BODY SUPPORTING EXOSKELETON DEVICE | GREIG, THOMAS W | 3785 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jan 21, 2022 |
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