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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lion Group Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a very focused or limited current prosecution phase. The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the technical subject matter is highly specific and fits within a single specialized examination group.
PATEL, TAJASH D serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, PATEL, TAJASH D is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This creates a situation where the immediate success of the portfolio's prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector relies on the specific interactions with this 1 examiner.
With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current legal strategy is highly centralized. Practitioners working on this portfolio do not need to worry about conflicting examiner requirements across different units. Instead, they can focus entirely on the 1 pending office action under the review of PATEL, TAJASH D to achieve their intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, TAJASH D | 1 | 80.8% | +7.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19143046 | PROTECTIVE GARMENT WITH EXPANDABLE SHOULDER PORTIONS | PATEL, TAJASH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19143046 | PROTECTIVE GARMENT WITH EXPANDABLE SHOULDER PORTIONS | PATEL, TAJASH D | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
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