Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Medical Device Development Group B V maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution activity is concentrated into 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the company's immediate regulatory interactions with the patent office, suggesting a specific portfolio management approach.
The portfolio's examination is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a narrow technical scope for the patent filings. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy remains within a specific administrative division of the office, which can lead to consistent feedback during the review process.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this individual handles the active workload, the alignment between the busiest examiner and the 1 busiest examiner pending office action indicates a streamlined prosecution path. This setup simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific preferences for the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 56.6% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17260163 | USER DEVICE FOR REGISTERING DISEASE RELATED STATES OF A USER | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 99d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17260163 | USER DEVICE FOR REGISTERING DISEASE RELATED STATES OF A USER | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 99d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17260163 | USER DEVICE FOR REGISTERING DISEASE RELATED STATES OF A USER | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2021 |
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