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
Inquis Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active case is located in 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of interaction with the patent office. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current patentable innovations are being evaluated within 1 specialized technical group.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter, LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM holds all of the company's current pending workload in this sector. This creates a concentrated prosecution environment where the outcome of the company's active patent efforts depends on 1 examiner. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this examiner, given that there are no other pending actions or examiners to consider at this time.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 1 | 62.7% | +46.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200634 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING CLOT MATERIAL | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200634 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING CLOT MATERIAL | LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
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