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
Laminar Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This individual pending action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is centralized, with a single technical focus being reviewed by one specific administrative unit at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MANNAN, MIKAIL A, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions for the company is 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire current prosecution workload. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific examination history and tendencies of MANNAN, MIKAIL A, as this individual is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's pending applications. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the concentrated nature of the current examination process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17862241 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 86d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17862241 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 86d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17862241 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Jul 11, 2022 |
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