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
Panther Life Sciences Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, LUCY CLARE EPPERT, in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent prosecution is focused on this single interaction at the USPTO.
LUCY CLARE EPPERT is the busiest examiner for the company, as she is responsible for the 1 pending office action that makes up the full portfolio. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution environment is concentrated. The success of this action will be determined by the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector and the individual review of this examiner.
The presence of just 1 pending office action suggests a specific intellectual property focus. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company has a single point of contact for its current prosecution efforts. This 1 pending action represents the entirety of Panther Life Sciences Corporation's current engagement with the office in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 60.0% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19290146 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAY SYSTEMS AND DEVICES, AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH MANUFACTURING AND USE | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19290146 | MICRONEEDLE ARRAY SYSTEMS AND DEVICES, AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH MANUFACTURING AND USE | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
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