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
Mek Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is concentrated, reflecting a single active pursuit within the engineering field. Managing only 1 pending office action allows for a highly focused legal strategy that addresses the specific technical objections raised by the patent office.
LEDERER, SARAH B is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the only pending action on record for this entity. For the practitioner, this means that the path to patent grant is currently centralized under one individual's review. Success in this prosecution depends on addressing the specific technical and procedural feedback provided by the 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the response is tailored to the examiner's specific concerns.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271929 | HIGH FLOW RESPIRATORY THERAPY DEVICE AND METHOD THROUGH BREATH SYNCHRONIZATION | LEDERER, SARAH B | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18271929 | HIGH FLOW RESPIRATORY THERAPY DEVICE AND METHOD THROUGH BREATH SYNCHRONIZATION | LEDERER, SARAH B | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
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