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
Launchpad O & P LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. MILLER, DANIEL A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action. This singular focus indicates a streamlined prosecution profile at this time, with all pending activity concentrated in a single matter.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's current interaction with the patent office is highly concentrated. MILLER, DANIEL A is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's pending applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This concentration means the company's immediate prosecution strategy depends entirely on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. The lack of additional pending matters suggests that the outcome of this 1 pending office action will define the company's current success in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, DANIEL A | 1 | 34.3% | +57.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18414420 | TUNING KIT AND RELATED METHOD FOR TUNING ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS | MILLER, DANIEL A | 46d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18414420 | TUNING KIT AND RELATED METHOD FOR TUNING ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS | MILLER, DANIEL A | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18414420 | TUNING KIT AND RELATED METHOD FOR TUNING ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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