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
Lares Research currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a single distinct examiner, SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. With only a single distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is focused within a single technical and administrative area of the patent office. This allows the applicant to concentrate their resources on a single examiner's feedback and requirements.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions, showing that SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P is the only individual reviewing the current claims. This examiner's specific expertise in medical devices and mechanical engineering will be the primary factor in the outcome of the pending application. Because the prosecution is limited to a single art unit, the applicant does not have to navigate the differing procedural norms of multiple patent office divisions. This streamlined environment is conducive to a highly focused and efficient prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 47.0% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18535751 | DENTAL HANDPIECE, MOTOR AND COUPLER WITH MULTI-WAVELENGTH LIGHT OUTPUTS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18535751 | DENTAL HANDPIECE, MOTOR AND COUPLER WITH MULTI-WAVELENGTH LIGHT OUTPUTS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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