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
Iowna Gowns Limited has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio in a single technology area reflects a specialized focus on mechanical or medical innovations. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of this art unit to navigate the pending action. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests that the prosecution strategy can be highly personalized to the preferences and history of that individual.
The busiest examiner for the company is HADEN, SALLY CLINE, who is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual manages the only active matter in the portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly centralized. The workload of 1 busiest examiner pending 1 matter indicates that the current patent office activity is limited to a single application. This streamlined environment allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single set of office action responses. The lack of diversity in art units ensures that the technical arguments remain within a consistent regulatory framework.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263076 | Medical Gown | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263076 | Medical Gown | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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