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
Joshi Innovations GmbH maintains a focused presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently in progress. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a non-diversified prosecution stage for its active filings.
CHRISTEN ALICIA SHARPLESS serves as the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the current prosecution timeline and strategy are focused on a single examiner's review within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 1 | 50.4% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547420 | ROTATABLE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM HAVING A ROTATABLE INSERTION TUBE | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18547420 | ROTATABLE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM HAVING A ROTATABLE INSERTION TUBE | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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