Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
North American EP Technology LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled in a different art unit by a different examiner, providing no overlap in the current prosecution personnel. This variety in assignments suggests that the company's 2 pending office actions cover distinct technical or functional aspects of their medical device technology.
The busiest examiner, LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are only 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner manages 1 of the company's active matters. The remaining action is handled by another of the 2 distinct examiners. This structure indicates that the company's current legal efforts are evenly divided across different technical and administrative divisions within the patent office. The use of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the prosecution is not centralized in one specific sub-unit, requiring attention to 2 distinct examiners.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 1 | 68.6% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300150 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR HEALTH MONITORING VIA IMPLANTABLE DEVICES IN THE ANTERIOR MEDIASTINUM | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300150 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR HEALTH MONITORING VIA IMPLANTABLE DEVICES IN THE ANTERIOR MEDIASTINUM | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
| 19300138 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF A SUBSTERNAL LEAD OF AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300150 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR HEALTH MONITORING VIA IMPLANTABLE DEVICES IN THE ANTERIOR MEDIASTINUM | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19300138 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF A SUBSTERNAL LEAD OF AN IMPLANTABLE DEVICE | LAUER, CHRISTINA C | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
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