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
Medi-Tate Ltd. is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no individual official is overwhelmed by the portfolio. The 2 filings are housed within 1 distinct art unit, which may lead to more consistent examination patterns than if they were split across multiple units.
SCHERBEL, TODD J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending workload for the company. The concentration of applications within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is closely related, even though different examiners are involved in the review process.
Practitioners should focus on the specific nuances of SCHERBEL, TODD J while maintaining a unified technical strategy for the art unit. The assigned examiners will likely apply the same departmental guidelines to the pending office actions. This structure allows for a streamlined approach to prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.2% | +52.3% |
| GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 1 | 80.5% | +21.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — |
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076830 | RADIAL CUTTER IMPLANT | SCHERBEL, TODD J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 16982459 | URETHRAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | GABR, MOHAMED GAMIL | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2020 |
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