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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oslo Universitetssykehus Hf currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current filings are concentrated in a specific administrative area, suggesting a focused review process. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners assigned to 2 pending office actions, the workload is split between the officials. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the workload for the busiest examiner in the portfolio. The distinct examiners confirm that the prosecution is shared across different individuals at the office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580711 | CELL CULTURE DEVICE AND MOVEMENT SYSTEM | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641158 | ON-BODY ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH MEDICAL IMPLANT | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 27d |
| 18580711 | CELL CULTURE DEVICE AND MOVEMENT SYSTEM | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580711 | CELL CULTURE DEVICE AND MOVEMENT SYSTEM | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 17641158 | ON-BODY ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH MEDICAL IMPLANT | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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