Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Jmc Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, yet they are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that while the technology is focused, the prosecution involves multiple perspectives within the same unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MUSA, BUSHIRA, who is handling 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions total, the workload is evenly split among the assigned examiners. Practitioners should be prepared for 3 distinct examiners to apply different interpretations of the prior art despite the cases being located in 1 distinct art unit. This structure requires a strategy that addresses the individual preferences of each examiner while maintaining consistency in the technical arguments for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSA, BUSHIRA | 1 | — | — |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
| ANGELES, JOSE | 1 | 36.8% | +50.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17940319 | CATHETER SIMULATOR AND HEART MODEL FOR CATHETER SIMULATOR | ANGELES, JOSE | 66d overdue |
| 18374546 | CATHETER SIMULATOR AND CEREBRAL BLOOD VESSEL MODEL | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17940319 | CATHETER SIMULATOR AND HEART MODEL FOR CATHETER SIMULATOR | ANGELES, JOSE | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922582 | ORGAN MODEL FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | MUSA, BUSHIRA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18374546 | CATHETER SIMULATOR AND CEREBRAL BLOOD VESSEL MODEL | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17940319 | CATHETER SIMULATOR AND HEART MODEL FOR CATHETER SIMULATOR | ANGELES, JOSE | 3715 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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