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
Invibio Knees Limited is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the company's applications, they all belong to the same specialized administrative group. Such a structure allows for some consistency in the examination environment while still involving multiple perspectives from 2 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner for the company is HUANG, STEVEN, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, each examiner is currently overseeing a single matter. This even distribution of the workload means that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's filings. For the practitioner, this indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is receiving individual attention from different staff members within the same art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.6% | +36.9% |
| MATHEW, SEEMA | 1 | 71.4% | +26.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257168 | KNEE IMPLANT | MATHEW, SEEMA | 28d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257168 | KNEE IMPLANT | MATHEW, SEEMA | 28d overdue |
| 18692704 | MOULDED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUANG, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692704 | MOULDED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUANG, STEVEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18257168 | KNEE IMPLANT | MATHEW, SEEMA | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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