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
Nanomedx Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 art unit indicates that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the applicant must navigate the differing perspectives of 2 separate examiners within that specific regulatory environment. Such a structure allows the applicant to test different arguments against the same art unit standards.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CABRAL, ROBERT S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the total pending workload consists of 2 actions, the responsibility is distributed between the identified busiest examiner and one other official. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit may lead to varied prosecution outcomes despite the shared technical focus of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. Practitioners should compare the 1 pending action under CABRAL, ROBERT S with the other active matter to identify any inconsistencies in examiner requirements within the same unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 1 | 100.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260467 | Combination Balloon Catheter | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18260467 | Combination Balloon Catheter | WHITROCK, ZACHARIAH KIRBY | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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