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
Peninsula Medical Technologies Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the current pending prosecution workload as reported in the data. The presence of this count reflects the interaction with the patent office for the current filing cycle.
The prosecution of this matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's active patent filings are not currently spread across more than the 1 art unit. For the practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the pending applications rests on this point of review. The number of art units suggests the technology falls within the scope of this 1 unit.
TOICH, SARA KATHERINE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which matches the total count of pending actions for the company. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, there is no distribution of work among other personnel. All current prosecution outcomes for Peninsula Medical Technologies Ltd. are tied to this examiner's evaluation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024454 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO PATIENT CARE | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18024454 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO PATIENT CARE | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
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