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
Innovative Health Sciences LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, but they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with multiple examiners, the technical focus of the prosecution remains concentrated within a single specialized group at the USPTO. The presence of 1 distinct art unit allows for a consistent technical approach.
The busiest examiner identified is NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. Because all work is within 1 distinct art unit, the company can maintain a unified strategy even as it manages the different examination styles of the 2 distinct examiners involved. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 busiest examiner pending action while ensuring that responses remain consistent with the standards of the single art unit.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 1 | 67.7% | +9.8% |
| SMALE, AVERY E | 1 | 74.2% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17026050 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRECISION MATCHED IMMUNOGLOBULIN INFUSION | SMALE, AVERY E | 103d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17761414 | INFUSION CONTROLLER USING INLINE FEEDBACK THROUGH INTEGRAL FLOW MEASUREMENT IN TUBING | NORTH, ISABELLA SARAH HYO SO | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 381d overdue | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
| 17026050 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRECISION MATCHED IMMUNOGLOBULIN INFUSION | SMALE, AVERY E | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2020 |
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