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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mentor Worldwide LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter represents the total active prosecution workload for the company's patent portfolio. The prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications. This concentration indicates that the company's intellectual property efforts are currently centered on a particular innovation in the medical device or mechanical engineering space.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this 1 pending office action is the only one currently active, the examiner's specific feedback will be the most important factor in the portfolio's immediate future. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the company can focus its prosecution strategy on a single set of technical and administrative requirements. Practitioners should ensure that their arguments are well-aligned with the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to move this 1 pending office action toward a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18101144 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICES HAVING OUTER SHELLS WITH INTEGRATED SCAFFOLDING FOR IMPROVING FORM STABILITY, REDUCING WRINKLING AND REDUCING THE WEIGHT OF THE IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICES | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18101144 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICES HAVING OUTER SHELLS WITH INTEGRATED SCAFFOLDING FOR IMPROVING FORM STABILITY, REDUCING WRINKLING AND REDUCING THE WEIGHT OF THE IMPLANTABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICES | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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