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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
John B Simpson currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated approach to current intellectual property filings. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the administrative oversight required for the pending applications. For a practitioner, this indicates that the legal strategy can be narrowly tailored to the specific examination standards of this technical division.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT, who is currently processing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio of pending actions, the legal strategy can focus on the specific preferences and precedents of this examiner. The alignment of the 1 pending office action within a single art unit indicates that the current technical focus remains strictly within the medical engineering domain. This centralized prosecution profile minimizes the complexity often found in larger portfolios that span multiple art units and examiners, allowing for a highly targeted patenting strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.7% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552161 | CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION TREATMENT SYSTEM USING LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIALS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 66d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552161 | CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION TREATMENT SYSTEM USING LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIALS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18552161 | CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION TREATMENT SYSTEM USING LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIALS | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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