Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lmd Ip LLC is currently dealing with 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 3 actions is handled by a different distinct examiner across 3 distinct art units. REMALY, MARK DONALD is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This ratio of 3 pending office actions to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units indicates a fragmented portfolio where each pending matter is being evaluated in a different administrative environment. Practitioners must tailor their approach for each of the 3 pending office actions, as there is no overlap in personnel or art unit oversight.
The diversity of 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units for only 3 pending office actions suggests that Lmd Ip LLC's innovations are technically varied within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because REMALY, MARK DONALD is the busiest examiner with just 1 pending action, no single examiner has a broader view of the company's current filings. This lack of concentration means that the applicant cannot benefit from economies of scale in their prosecution strategy. Instead, each of the 3 actions requires a unique set of arguments and a separate understanding of the specific art unit's prior art landscape. For the practitioner, this means that the 3 pending office actions represent three entirely independent tracks of negotiation with the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REMALY, MARK DONALD | 1 | 70.5% | +15.9% |
| BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1 | 63.2% | -18.9% |
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 78.8% | +22.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886991 | PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 1d overdue |
| 18962391 | PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 43d |
| 17051470 | IMPROVED PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | CASLER, BRIAN L | 56d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962391 | PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 43d |
| 17051470 | IMPROVED PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | CASLER, BRIAN L | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962391 | PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | REMALY, MARK DONALD | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18886991 | PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | BUI PHO, PASCAL M | 3798 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 17051470 | IMPROVED PERSONAL HEALTH DATA COLLECTION | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Oct 29, 2020 |
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