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
Maricare OY maintains 1 pending office action focused in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a concentrated point of contact for the company's active patent matters. This concentration implies that the immediate legal strategy is focused on a specific technological application rather than a broad array of mechanical innovations.
The portfolio's activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit. HOLMES, REX R serves as the busiest examiner for the entity, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this 1 pending office action represents the total volume of current prosecution, the examiner's specific tendencies will be the primary factor in determining the timeline for this application. Navigating this 1 art unit requires a focused understanding of its specific internal guidelines and the examiner's history with medical device claims. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the procedural landscape but increases the impact of individual examiner discretion.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLMES, REX R | 1 | 80.2% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280107 | SENSOR AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING | HOLMES, REX R | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280107 | SENSOR AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING | HOLMES, REX R | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280107 | SENSOR AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING | HOLMES, REX R | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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