Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mccormack Innovation Limited is currently engaged in patent prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions. Interestingly, both of these actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high level of concentration for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner for Mccormack Innovation Limited is HENSON, KATINA N, who is managing 2 pending office actions. This means that HENSON, KATINA N is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the patent office. For a practitioner, this concentration simplifies the point of contact but also means that success is heavily dependent on the specific examination style of this one individual.
With 1 distinct examiner, the company has a consistent point of interaction for its current filings. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the technology being patented is specialized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This lack of diversification across examiners or art units means that the prosecution strategy must be perfectly aligned with the expectations of HENSON, KATINA N.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, KATINA N | 2 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18083154 | DISSOLVABLE WET WIPE | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17252565 | Dissolvable Wet Wipe | HENSON, KATINA N | 54d |
| 18083154 | DISSOLVABLE WET WIPE | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18083154 | DISSOLVABLE WET WIPE | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17252565 | Dissolvable Wet Wipe | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Dec 15, 2020 |
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