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
Iveneer Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This action falls under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, indicating the specific technical focus of the company's current intellectual property efforts. The prosecution is managed by a distinct examiner, which centralizes the current legal dialogue between the company and the patent office. This singular focus allows for a streamlined approach to addressing the examiner's requirements.
The activity is confined to a distinct art unit, showing a specific classification for the pending matter within the broader medical and mechanical fields. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This action constitutes the entirety of the company's pending workload, meaning the immediate outcome of the portfolio's prosecution rests with this individual examiner and the standards of their specific art unit. Such a concentrated workload simplifies tracking but increases the importance of the interaction with this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.7% | +37.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725775 | MATRICES INCLUDING VENEERS AND CROWNS FOR DENTAL RESTORATION | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725775 | MATRICES INCLUDING VENEERS AND CROWNS FOR DENTAL RESTORATION | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 3772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
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