Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Pds Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently contains 2 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending application is being handled independently by different personnel in different units.
The busiest examiner for Pds Inc. is NELSON, CHRISTINE L, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed evenly. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical engineering and medical device filings are categorized into different specialized groups within the patent office. This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific technical requirements of 2 different art units and the individual preferences of 2 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, managing 2 distinct examiners in 2 different art units for only 2 pending actions indicates a highly fragmented prosecution landscape for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 1 | 62.7% | +33.5% |
| PATEL, OM | 1 | 58.6% | +54.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782962 | DENTAL TOOL HAVING A THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE | PATEL, OM | 15d overdue |
| 18684671 | FRAME FOR HOLDING A DENTAL DAM | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782962 | DENTAL TOOL HAVING A THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE | PATEL, OM | 15d overdue |
| 18684671 | FRAME FOR HOLDING A DENTAL DAM | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684671 | FRAME FOR HOLDING A DENTAL DAM | NELSON, CHRISTINE L | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 17, 2024 |
| 17782962 | DENTAL TOOL HAVING A THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE | PATEL, OM | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
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