Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanohive Medical LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a highly specialized technical focus for the portfolio. These 4 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners.
PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 pending cases. This means that 2 of the company's 4 pending office actions are under the review of a single individual. Practitioners can use the feedback from these 2 pending cases to identify consistent themes or requirements from the busiest examiner, while also managing the remaining actions with the other 3 distinct examiners in the same art unit.
The concentration of 4 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape for the practitioner. However, the involvement of 3 distinct examiners introduces different personal styles into the prosecution process. With PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D handling 2 pending cases, their specific examination tendencies will have a larger impact on the portfolio than the other examiners.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 2 | 64.8% | +19.0% |
| WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 1 | 61.0% | +39.1% |
| DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 1 | 82.1% | +11.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594747 | IMPLANT WITH INDEPENDENT ENDPLATES | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751839 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 56d |
| 18828316 | FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | — |
| 18594747 | IMPLANT WITH INDEPENDENT ENDPLATES | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18828316 | FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18751839 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18594747 | IMPLANT WITH INDEPENDENT ENDPLATES | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3774 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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