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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optecks LLC maintains a portfolio with 1 pending office action, specifically located in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in current proceedings. This distribution reflects a concentrated prosecution phase where all active matters are handled under a single point of review. Such a structure often indicates that the company is focusing its current legal resources on a specific technological advancement within the medical field.
SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the total volume of pending office actions for the company. For legal teams, this means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the interactions within this specific art unit. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 pending office action suggests a focused engagement with the patent office, which may facilitate a consistent prosecution history for the involved application. Practitioners should prepare for a detailed review process within the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232524 | OBJECTIVE MEDICAL 3D SCANNING AND MAPPING SYSTEM | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232524 | OBJECTIVE MEDICAL 3D SCANNING AND MAPPING SYSTEM | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232524 | OBJECTIVE MEDICAL 3D SCANNING AND MAPPING SYSTEM | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
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