Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mozarc Medical US LLC is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 pending office actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 case. The portfolio is distributed technically, spanning 5 distinct art units.
DERUSSO, JOHN J is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is balanced among the assigned staff. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes a portion of the total volume.
The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests a range of chemical and material innovations. Practitioners should prepare for diverse examiner perspectives, as the examiners likely operate under different art unit cultures. The 6 pending office actions represent a varied prosecution effort across 5 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1 | 80.4% | +14.0% |
| KIM, SUN U | 1 | 78.2% | +11.5% |
| SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 1 | 50.6% | +51.0% |
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
| VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 1 | 55.1% | +25.9% |
| MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1 | 59.8% | +15.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952810 | CATHETER HAVING AN EXPANDABLE LUMEN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17365093 | AUTHENTICATION TO MEDICAL DEVICE VIA MOBILE APPLICATION | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 30d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17067699 | MODULAR HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEM | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 15d overdue |
| 17365093 | AUTHENTICATION TO MEDICAL DEVICE VIA MOBILE APPLICATION | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 30d |
| 17495513 | ANTI-THROMBOGENIC COATING | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 53d |
| 18952810 | CATHETER HAVING AN EXPANDABLE LUMEN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | — |
| 18244967 | AUTOMATIC RECHARGER BRINE PREPARATION FROM A CANISTER | KIM, SUN U | — |
| 17354744 | CATHETER CUFF | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 2 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18952810 | CATHETER HAVING AN EXPANDABLE LUMEN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | DERUSSO, JOHN J | 1744 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18244967 | AUTOMATIC RECHARGER BRINE PREPARATION FROM A CANISTER | KIM, SUN U | 1777 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 17495513 | ANTI-THROMBOGENIC COATING | SMITH, PETER DANIEL | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
| 17365093 | AUTHENTICATION TO MEDICAL DEVICE VIA MOBILE APPLICATION | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 01, 2021 |
| 17354744 | CATHETER CUFF | VOKES, KATHLEEN PAIGE | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2021 |
| 17067699 | MODULAR HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEM | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1777 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2020 |
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