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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kogent Surgical LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is WOODALL, NICHOLAS W, who is responsible for the only active matter. This examiner is the only individual currently reviewing the company's active filings.
The company's active prosecution is limited to 1 pending office action, showing a high degree of focus. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the current medical device claims are being evaluated by a single point of contact. WOODALL, NICHOLAS W is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's pending application. This centralized oversight in a single art unit ensures that the 1 pending office action receives a specialized technical review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.0% | +13.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426530 | ULTRASONIC SURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH TORSIONAL TRANSDUCER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426530 | ULTRASONIC SURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH TORSIONAL TRANSDUCER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18426530 | ULTRASONIC SURGICAL HANDPIECE WITH TORSIONAL TRANSDUCER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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