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
Lumitex Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical scope for the company's active filings. GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's current pending workload.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner suggests a direct and consistent interaction with the USPTO. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, there is no need to coordinate across different technical divisions. Practitioners can tailor their strategy specifically to the preferences of GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE, as this individual manages the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This centralized structure simplifies the monitoring of prosecution milestones and allows for a highly targeted approach to the company's intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547774 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL CANNULA | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547774 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL CANNULA | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18547774 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL CANNULA | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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