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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lifebridge Technologies LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed within a single distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for the company's current intellectual property. The company is working with a sole distinct examiner, which simplifies the management of its pending patent matter and allows for a more direct communication channel with the patent office.
The busiest examiner, BAYS, PAMELA M, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count matches the total pending actions, the company's prosecution efforts are entirely concentrated on this single examiner. This allows for a focused legal approach within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, tailored to the specific examiner's interpretations and requirements. Practitioners can dedicate their resources to addressing the particular objections raised by this examiner to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAYS, PAMELA M | 1 | 71.7% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067788 | Material Characteristics Ideal for Providing Either Partial or Total Mechanical Support to the Failing or Arrested Heart and Method for Developing Ideal Characteristics for Underlying Cardiac Disorders | BAYS, PAMELA M | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067788 | Material Characteristics Ideal for Providing Either Partial or Total Mechanical Support to the Failing or Arrested Heart and Method for Developing Ideal Characteristics for Underlying Cardiac Disorders | BAYS, PAMELA M | 3796 | §112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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