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
Padm Medical Inc. possesses a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both contained within 1 distinct art unit.
BOECKER, JOSEPH D is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. The concentration of these actions within 1 distinct art unit implies that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technical subject matter remains consistent across the pending files.
For a patent practitioner, this structure suggests a need to monitor consistency in examiner behavior within the single art unit. Although BOECKER, JOSEPH D only manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, the total of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners provides a broader set of interactions within the same technical group.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOECKER, JOSEPH D | 1 | 83.6% | +23.0% |
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.2% | +46.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628364 | Disposable, Compostable Surgical/Medical Masks and Methods of Production Therefor | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246267 | REUSABLE, RESTERILIZABLE SMART HALF-MASK RESPIRATOR APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 82d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246267 | REUSABLE, RESTERILIZABLE SMART HALF-MASK RESPIRATOR APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 82d |
| 18628364 | Disposable, Compostable Surgical/Medical Masks and Methods of Production Therefor | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18628364 | Disposable, Compostable Surgical/Medical Masks and Methods of Production Therefor | BOECKER, JOSEPH D | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18246267 | REUSABLE, RESTERILIZABLE SMART HALF-MASK RESPIRATOR APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
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