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
Manometric Holding B V currently manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific and concentrated intellectual property focus. This structure implies that the company's current USPTO activity is centered on 1 technical innovation or a closely related group of claims.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As the only examiner currently engaged with the portfolio, FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS's feedback and examination history will be the primary factors in the prosecution of the active matter. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific requirements of this examiner and the 1 distinct art unit to ensure a smooth path toward allowance in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This streamlined approach minimizes the risk of conflicting requirements that can arise when a portfolio is spread across multiple examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 1 | 40.5% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17757480 | ORTHOSIS FOR PLACEMENT ON A HUMAN HAND | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17757480 | ORTHOSIS FOR PLACEMENT ON A HUMAN HAND | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17757480 | ORTHOSIS FOR PLACEMENT ON A HUMAN HAND | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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