Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Olympus Medical Systems Corporation is actively prosecuting a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions that require attention. This level of activity suggests an ongoing effort to secure intellectual property rights within this technical domain. Navigating the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector involves meeting the specific technical and administrative requirements of the patent office.
The portfolio's pending matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, yet they are all contained within 1 distinct art unit. This is a structural detail showing that while the technical focus is narrow enough to stay within a single art unit, the patent office has assigned multiple individuals to review the applications. This can lead to different perspectives on similar subject matter within the same administrative group. The use of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical standards remain consistent across the 2 distinct examiners.
LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the workload is divided, with the busiest examiner handling one of the current matters while another examiner handles the second. Practitioners must therefore prepare for different examination approaches even though the technical field remains consistent across the 1 distinct art unit. Monitoring the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is essential for managing the overall portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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% |
| EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 1 | 55.1% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17546804 | REAL-TIME SAMPLING SYSTEM | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17813227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME SAMPLING | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 49d |
| 17546804 | REAL-TIME SAMPLING SYSTEM | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17813227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME SAMPLING | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Jul 18, 2022 |
| 17546804 | REAL-TIME SAMPLING SYSTEM | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
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