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
Optical Integrity Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of mechanical and medical applications. The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners. Each of the 2 pending office actions is assigned to a unique examiner in a unique art unit.
SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the company is managing two separate prosecution paths, each with its own examiner and art unit specific requirements. SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY is one of the 2 distinct examiners involved.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are not dependent on a single individual's review. While SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY handles 1 pending office action, the second action is reviewed by another official. This structure requires the company to adapt to different prosecution environments for its 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 1 | 16.7% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642086 | Method of Preventing Sloughing or Incomplete Vaporization of Tissues During a Laser Ablation Procedure | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642086 | Method of Preventing Sloughing or Incomplete Vaporization of Tissues During a Laser Ablation Procedure | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18642086 | Method of Preventing Sloughing or Incomplete Vaporization of Tissues During a Laser Ablation Procedure | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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