Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Octet Medical Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across distinct examiners and art units, with each of the 3 applications being reviewed by a different individual in a separate technical group. Such a spread requires a tailored approach for each filing, as there is no overlap in the personnel or the specific departments evaluating the company's technology.
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action. Since every examiner involved is responsible for a case, the workload is evenly divided. No single examiner, including WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION, holds a dominant position in the company's prosecution landscape. The company must therefore navigate multiple examination paths, each influenced by the unique perspectives of the different examiners. This structure necessitates a versatile strategy to address the specific requirements of each active matter without relying on a centralized examiner or art 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
| LIEUWEN, CODY J | 1 | 59.8% | +46.0% |
| KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 1 | 62.9% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18235324 | RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTROSTATIC APPLICATOR | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422428 | METHODS OF APPLYING A TREATMENT SOLUTION TO A TREATMENT SITE | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 41d |
| 19179969 | DEVICE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF APPLYING A TREATMENT SOLUTION TO A TREATMENT SITE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18235324 | RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTROSTATIC APPLICATOR | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19179969 | DEVICE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF APPLYING A TREATMENT SOLUTION TO A TREATMENT SITE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18422428 | METHODS OF APPLYING A TREATMENT SOLUTION TO A TREATMENT SITE | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18235324 | RETENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE FOR ELECTROSTATIC APPLICATOR | KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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