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
Micrel Medical Devices S A has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a streamlined prosecution profile with no current fragmentation across different USPTO departments. This focus allows for a more efficient allocation of resources toward a single patenting goal.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE, who is assigned 1 pending office action. The company's immediate patent strategy is therefore defined by the specific feedback and requirements of this single examiner. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the examiner's history within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the applicant avoids the complexities of managing different timelines or conflicting examiner styles. The 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current USPTO engagement, and its resolution is the key to advancing their technological interests in this field. The presence of 1 distinct examiner simplifies the negotiation process for the applicant's legal team.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 1 | 50.0% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17665293 | CONNECTED INFUSION PUMP DEVICE | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17665293 | CONNECTED INFUSION PUMP DEVICE | DIPERT, FORREST BLAKE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
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