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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Integrity Medical Services Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow technical focus for the company current patent applications. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each of the 2 pending actions is being reviewed by a different person despite being within the same art unit. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company faces a variety of individual examination styles.
DANG, PHONG SON H is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 of the 2 pending office actions. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, there is no concentration of work under a single individual. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for the 2 pending actions implies that the company prosecution strategy can be specialized to the norms of that specific group. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners still requires the company to adapt to the individual preferences of each official reviewing the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners should ensure that the prosecution of these 2 actions remains consistent within the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.6% |
| RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 1 | 65.4% | +34.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19349565 | SUTURE PASSER DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
| 19224270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL TISSUE REPAIR | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19349565 | SUTURE PASSER DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19224270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL TISSUE REPAIR | RODJOM, KATHERINE MARIE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
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