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
Phap Medical LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. Such a focused portfolio indicates that the company's current patent office interactions are concentrated in a specific technical and administrative niche. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests a straightforward prosecution environment with no current distribution across different office departments.
MICHAEL WILLIAM KAHELIN serves as the busiest examiner for this company, handling 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is responsible for the company's total current workload. Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action is entirely under the review of MICHAEL WILLIAM KAHELIN. This concentration means that the examiner's specific interpretation of the 1 distinct art unit's guidelines will be the primary factor in the prosecution's outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTRA-AORTIC PERISTALSIS HEART ASSIST PUMP | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 43d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18671350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTRA-AORTIC PERISTALSIS HEART ASSIST PUMP | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18671350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN INTRA-AORTIC PERISTALSIS HEART ASSIST PUMP | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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