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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medicool Technologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a targeted strategy for their current patent applications. This narrow scope suggests the company is focusing on a specific medical device innovation rather than a broad portfolio. The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit allows the company to concentrate its legal efforts on a single technical specialty.
The busiest examiner, STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action constitutes the company's entire pending workload, making the examiner's decisions central to the portfolio's progress. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can focus its prosecution efforts on the specific rules and precedents of that unit. This centralized approach means the company's immediate success depends on resolving the 1 pending office action with this 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 1 | 63.8% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118490 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR THERMAL THERAPY | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 134d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18118490 | MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEMS FOR THERMAL THERAPY | STOKLOSA, JOSEPH A | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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