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
Integrated Endoscopy Inc. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each matter is receiving an independent review. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 active matter. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit means that both examiners are working within the same specialized division of the patent office.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit offers an opportunity to compare different examiner perspectives on similar technical subject matter. While the company must navigate 2 different individual styles, the shared art unit environment provides a consistent set of administrative rules. The pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current prosecution efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 1 | 69.4% | +38.9% |
| FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 1 | 79.6% | +20.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18445000 | WIRELESS CAMERA ASSEMBLY | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 70d |
| 19059800 | CORDLESS DISPOSABLE ENDOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059800 | CORDLESS DISPOSABLE ENDOSCOPE | LONDON, STEPHEN FLOYD | 3795 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18445000 | WIRELESS CAMERA ASSEMBLY | FAIRCHILD, AARON BENJAMIN | 3795 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
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