Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innotex Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being processed within a distinct art unit, which provides a consistent administrative framework for the company's current filings. However, the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each of the company's pending matters is being reviewed by a different official at the USPTO.
KATHERINE M MORAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since the company's 2 pending office actions are divided equally among the examiners, the legal strategy must account for the individual tendencies of different people even though they operate within the same art unit. This distribution requires a nuanced approach to ensure that responses to office actions are tailored to the specific feedback of each examiner.
The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering within 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical domain. While the number of pending actions is small, the involvement of different officials means that the company cannot rely on a specific point of contact. Practitioners should monitor the progress of both actions to identify any divergent interpretations of patentability within this specific art unit, especially given the 1 pending office action with the busiest examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORAN, KATHERINE M | 1 | 54.2% | +24.2% |
| HOEY, ALISSA L | 1 | 44.5% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941057 | OUTER SHELL WITH SPACER PADS FOR FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS AND FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS INCLUDING THE SAME | HOEY, ALISSA L | 9d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941057 | OUTER SHELL WITH SPACER PADS FOR FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS AND FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS INCLUDING THE SAME | HOEY, ALISSA L | 9d |
| 19066467 | LOW-CARBON FOOTPRINT OUTER SHELLS FOR FIREFIGHTER GARMENTS | MORAN, KATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066467 | LOW-CARBON FOOTPRINT OUTER SHELLS FOR FIREFIGHTER GARMENTS | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18941057 | OUTER SHELL WITH SPACER PADS FOR FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS AND FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE GARMENTS INCLUDING THE SAME | HOEY, ALISSA L | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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