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
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital For Itself And On Behalf Of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across a distinct art unit. Jaymi E Della is the busiest examiner, overseeing the pending office action.
Since there is only a single pending action overall, the hospital's current patent prosecution is entirely dependent on this examiner's review. This indicates a focused volume of active patent applications at this time. Practitioners should monitor the art unit's general trends to anticipate potential hurdles in the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELLA, JAYMI E | 1 | 68.8% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562514 | Radial Pulse Field Ablation Catheter System | DELLA, JAYMI E | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562514 | Radial Pulse Field Ablation Catheter System | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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