Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mdx Medical currently maintains a focused prosecution profile within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, which represents the company's total active engagement with the patent office. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating that the company's current legal strategy is concentrated on a specific set of claims. This lack of distribution suggests a targeted approach to its current intellectual property filings.
The prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus within the broader transportation and mechanical field. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner holds influence over the current trajectory of the company's pending applications. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the portfolio's current efforts depends on the specific requirements of this examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 1 | 17.4% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11928417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR A PROFESSIONAL | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11928417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR A PROFESSIONAL | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11928417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR A PROFESSIONAL | BALLOU, MAAME BOAKYEWAA | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2007 |
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