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
NuFlow Products, Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, pointing to a singular focus for the company's active prosecution. The work is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical application for the current filing.
PATEL, YOGESH P is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution, as it matches the total number of pending office actions. Consequently, the company's current patent outcomes are dependent on the specific examination criteria of this single individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the tendencies of this examiner and the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, YOGESH P | 1 | 57.9% | +58.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17455943 | FLEXIBLE SURGICAL SUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD | PATEL, YOGESH P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17455943 | FLEXIBLE SURGICAL SUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD | PATEL, YOGESH P | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2021 |
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