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
Major Medical Devices LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a concentrated effort in the patent office. The data also lists 1 distinct art unit, which implies that the company's current filings are being evaluated within a single specialized group. This streamlined interaction model simplifies the tracking of prosecution progress but places significant weight on a single examiner.
The busiest examiner for the company is ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This examiner's pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the company's active office action workload. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy is currently simplified to a single relationship with one examiner. The lack of multiple pending actions or examiners suggests a very specific portfolio where all progress is monitored through this one active matter in a single art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.1% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801084 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRODUCING A STENT-GRAFT THROUGH A BLOOD VESSEL LOCATED ABOVE A DIAPHRAGM | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801084 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRODUCING A STENT-GRAFT THROUGH A BLOOD VESSEL LOCATED ABOVE A DIAPHRAGM | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17801084 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRODUCING A STENT-GRAFT THROUGH A BLOOD VESSEL LOCATED ABOVE A DIAPHRAGM | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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