Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mas Innovation (Private) Limited is currently overseeing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, yet all of them are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This creates a prosecution environment where multiple examiners are reviewing different applications under a set of art unit-specific guidelines.
STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total, each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending case. This distribution means that while the practitioner must engage with 4 different individuals, the consistency provided by 1 distinct art unit may allow for a unified legal strategy across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings.
The concentration of 4 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit is notable for a portfolio of this size. It suggests that the 4 distinct examiners, including STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F, are likely colleagues who share similar technical expertise. For Mas Innovation (Private) Limited, this means that arguments made in one of the 4 pending cases might be relevant to the others, given the shared 1 distinct art unit environment.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.6% | +14.8% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| ANDERSON, JOSHUA D | 1 | 82.9% | +30.3% |
| MCGRATH, ERIN E | 1 | 60.1% | +28.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285933 | COMPRESSION APPARATUS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 77d overdue |
| 18966260 | ABSORBENT PAD FOR A GARMENT AND A GARMENT COMPRISING THE ABSORBENT PAD | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 18571063 | HEATING PRODUCT | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
| 18381923 | DATA COMMUNICATION CABLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH CABLE | ANDERSON, JOSHUA 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285933 | COMPRESSION APPARATUS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 77d overdue |
| 18966260 | ABSORBENT PAD FOR A GARMENT AND A GARMENT COMPRISING THE ABSORBENT PAD | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — |
| 18381923 | DATA COMMUNICATION CABLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH CABLE | ANDERSON, JOSHUA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966260 | ABSORBENT PAD FOR A GARMENT AND A GARMENT COMPRISING THE ABSORBENT PAD | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18571063 | HEATING PRODUCT | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18381923 | DATA COMMUNICATION CABLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH CABLE | ANDERSON, JOSHUA D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18285933 | COMPRESSION APPARATUS | MCGRATH, ERIN E | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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