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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnus Medical Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's current legal efforts. The data also indicates that 1 distinct art unit is responsible for the review, pointing to a focused technical scope for the pending application. This concentration minimizes the need for the company to navigate different sets of internal patent office guidelines across multiple departments.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HONRATH, MARC D, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the company. Because the workload is limited to 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy can be precisely tailored to the individual tendencies of HONRATH, MARC D. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests a straightforward administrative path for the company's current 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 74.5% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT | HONRATH, MARC D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18482553 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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