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
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the Hospital for Special currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a focused interaction with the patent office at this time. The case is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the subject matter falls into a specific technical category. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is currently concentrated on a specific application rather than a distributed portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KAVANAUGH, JOHN T, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the entirety of the company's current prosecution depends on this individual official. The presence of 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not need to navigate multiple departmental standards simultaneously. This environment allows for a direct dialogue between the applicant and the assigned examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 1 | 71.9% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19367537 | CLEAT ASSEMBLY | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19367537 | CLEAT ASSEMBLY | KAVANAUGH, JOHN T | 3732 | §112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
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