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
Petal Surgical Inc. is engaged in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular point of contact for current prosecution.
The company's activity is located within 1 distinct art unit. ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entirety of the workload.
The concentration of 1 pending office action within 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific focus for the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering patent applications. With 1 distinct examiner assigned, the company experiences a centralized review process for its 1 distinct art unit filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 1 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TISSUE INTERVENTION VIA IMAGE-GUIDED BOILING HISTOTRIPSY | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 78d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TISSUE INTERVENTION VIA IMAGE-GUIDED BOILING HISTOTRIPSY | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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