Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Medfree Inc. has 2 pending office actions distributed across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, requiring the company to navigate different individual preferences and styles during prosecution. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the work remains situated within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the underlying technical subject matter is evaluated within a single specialized group. This structure allows for technical consistency even as different examiners review the claims.
LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total workload, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is part of the 2 total actions. This distribution suggests a diversified prosecution strategy where no single examiner controls the majority of the pending outcomes, though the technical scope remains focused within 1 art unit. Managing 2 examiners within 1 art unit requires a coordinated effort to ensure that arguments made in one case do not conflict with those in the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 1 | 65.5% | +34.3% |
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 64.8% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17497373 | TISSUE GRASPING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 169d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17497373 | TISSUE GRASPING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 169d overdue |
| 18245410 | TISSUE GRASPING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18245410 | TISSUE GRASPING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 3774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 17497373 | TISSUE GRASPING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 169d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2021 |
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