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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inqb8 Medical Technologies LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled in 1 distinct art unit, which shows a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent prosecution. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, BYRD, BRIGID K, who is responsible for the pending work. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized legal approach tailored to specific technical standards.
BYRD, BRIGID K is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under her review. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages all of the company's current pending work. The concentration under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the prosecution landscape. This allows the applicant to focus on the specific technical requirements and examination style of BYRD, BRIGID K, potentially streamlining the path to patent issuance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175644 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | BYRD, BRIGID K | 111d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18175644 | PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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