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
Lexat currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a narrow footprint at the USPTO. The company's current efforts are focused on this pending matter, which simplifies the oversight required for their intellectual property development. This concentration suggests that the current patent strategy is specialized.
MILLER, DANIEL A serves as the busiest examiner for Lexat, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles the company's active office action, as the total count is 1. Practitioners should analyze the specific art unit and examiner Miller's past actions to optimize the outcome for this pending application. Because all activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is tied directly to the resolution of this matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704239 | ELBOW ORTHOSIS AND PROCESS FOR ADAPTING A CONFIGURATION OF SUCH AN ORTHOSIS TO A PATIENT | MILLER, DANIEL A | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704239 | ELBOW ORTHOSIS AND PROCESS FOR ADAPTING A CONFIGURATION OF SUCH AN ORTHOSIS TO A PATIENT | MILLER, DANIEL A | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18704239 | ELBOW ORTHOSIS AND PROCESS FOR ADAPTING A CONFIGURATION OF SUCH AN ORTHOSIS TO A PATIENT | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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