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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lansinoh Laboratories Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent office interactions. The focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being pursued is specialized and falls under a specific set of examination guidelines within the mechanical engineering field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE, who is handling the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current prosecution is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback and examination style of this examiner to advance the pending application. This centralized prosecution structure allows for a very targeted strategy, but it also means that the company does not have other pending matters to balance out any difficulties encountered with this 1 distinct examiner. Effectively managing this 1 pending office action is critical for the company's current intellectual property objectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257478 | VIBRATORY WAVEFORM FOR BREAST PUMP | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18257478 | VIBRATORY WAVEFORM FOR BREAST PUMP | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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