Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mgi Holdco Ltd. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating a high degree of individual review for each application. However, these examiners are situated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting some technical grouping within the patent office's organizational structure despite the variety of examiners involved.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LUAN, SCOTT, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, no single examiner is responsible for more than one active matter. This distribution requires the practitioner to manage 5 different examination styles across the 3 distinct art units. While the 3 distinct art units provide some technical commonality, the primary challenge for this portfolio is the breadth of 5 distinct examiners reviewing the 5 pending office actions. This necessitates a tailored approach for each application to navigate the diverse perspectives of the assigned examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
| LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 1 | 76.3% | +40.3% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
| HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 1 | 27.3% | +33.9% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING GARMENT | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 74d overdue |
| 17421173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING KNEE BRACE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 17d overdue |
| 17789735 | CONDUCTIVE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ELECTRODES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH ELECTRODES | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 33d |
| 18572149 | SMART GARMENT FOR REMOTE DELIVERY OF THERAPY | LUAN, SCOTT | 72d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING GARMENT | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 74d overdue |
| 17421173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING KNEE BRACE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 17d overdue |
| 17789735 | CONDUCTIVE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ELECTRODES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH ELECTRODES | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 33d |
| 18572149 | SMART GARMENT FOR REMOTE DELIVERY OF THERAPY | LUAN, SCOTT | 72d |
| 16959809 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TUBULAR WORN GARMENT | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572149 | SMART GARMENT FOR REMOTE DELIVERY OF THERAPY | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 17789735 | CONDUCTIVE THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER ELECTRODES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUCH ELECTRODES | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17421173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING KNEE BRACE | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2021 |
| 17421088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGY MONITORING GARMENT | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2021 |
| 16959809 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL TUBULAR WORN GARMENT | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2020 |
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