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
L-Sens Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which defines the technical scope of the examination. The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the company's current legal interactions. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is VOORHEES, CATHERINE M, who is managing 1 pending office action.
This individual's workload represents the totality of the company's pending actions. With 1 examiner and 1 art unit involved, the prosecution environment is highly concentrated. For a practitioner, this means the current outcome of the portfolio depends on the evaluation of a single examiner. The data does not show any current diversification across different examiners or technical units. This concentration allows for a highly specific approach to the pending matter within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727687 | APPLICATOR AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727687 | APPLICATOR AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727687 | APPLICATOR AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §102 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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