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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovations 4 Surgery LLC is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being handled by the same number of distinct examiners, which means that each pending matter is receiving an independent review. This distribution of work across multiple examiners can provide the company with different perspectives on their medical device innovations.
Despite having multiple examiners, the portfolio's active cases are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are all operating within the same specialized technical group at the patent office. The busiest examiner is LE, KHOA TAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is divided such that the busiest examiner handles a portion of the company's current pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 78.0% | +38.2% |
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.6% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759963 | MEDICAL CUTTING DEVICES HAVING WORKING BLADE BODIES AND STATIC COMPONENTS WITH DETACHABLE PORTIONS, RAILS AND STRUTS AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY | LE, KHOA TAN | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18087715 | MEDICAL CUTTING DEVICES WITH A STATIC CASING AND A BLADE WORKING BODY OF GREATER WIDTH AND RELATED METHODS | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 30d overdue |
| 18759963 | MEDICAL CUTTING DEVICES HAVING WORKING BLADE BODIES AND STATIC COMPONENTS WITH DETACHABLE PORTIONS, RAILS AND STRUTS AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY | LE, KHOA TAN | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18759963 | MEDICAL CUTTING DEVICES HAVING WORKING BLADE BODIES AND STATIC COMPONENTS WITH DETACHABLE PORTIONS, RAILS AND STRUTS AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 18087715 | MEDICAL CUTTING DEVICES WITH A STATIC CASING AND A BLADE WORKING BODY OF GREATER WIDTH AND RELATED METHODS | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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