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
Medsniper S R L is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending matter. The entire pending portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
This centralized structure means that the practitioner must focus all efforts on the preferences of SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA. With only 1 pending office action, there are no other cases to provide a broader view of how this 1 art unit handles similar Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications. The practitioner should prioritize understanding the specific rejection patterns of SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA to navigate the 1 pending action effectively. Because the portfolio is not diversified across multiple examiners or art units, the outcome of this 1 case will define the company's current success in this technology area. A precise and examiner specific approach is necessary for this concentrated prosecution profile.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 1 | 50.4% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17770731 | A LARYNGOSCOPE FOR OROTRACHEAL INTUBATION | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17770731 | A LARYNGOSCOPE FOR OROTRACHEAL INTUBATION | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
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