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
Life Patch International has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a consolidated prosecution profile. This focus within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's active patent applications are technically related. Having 1 pending office action means the company has a single set of examiner comments to address, simplifying the management of its pending cases.
MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual handles the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action, serving as the sole examiner currently interacting with the portfolio. Because the busiest examiner pending count matches the total of 1 pending office action, the company's current progress at the patent office is tied to this single examiner. Practitioners should note that there are no other distinct examiners or art units involved, making the specific approach of MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN the most important factor in the portfolio's current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17885245 | WEARABLE PATCHES FOR SPORTS | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 84d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17885245 | WEARABLE PATCHES FOR SPORTS | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 84d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17885245 | WEARABLE PATCHES FOR SPORTS | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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