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
The company patent portfolio for J Christopher Flaherty is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This prosecution is handled by a lone distinct examiner, which shows a lack of examiner diversity in the current active filings. Furthermore, the work is contained within a lone distinct art unit, indicating a narrow technical classification for the pending matter. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests that the intellectual property is centered on a specific mechanical innovation.
DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners should recognize that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from this individual examiner. The focus on a lone art unit and examiner suggests that the current intellectual property assets are concentrated in a specific niche, requiring a targeted approach to the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA | 1 | 68.6% | +38.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF A SEALANT | DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA | 128d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF A SEALANT | DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA | 128d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17999376 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED DELIVERY OF A SEALANT | DIOP, FATIMATA SAHRA | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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