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
Phoenix Children'S Hospital Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a focused technical review for the hospital's current patent application. Having 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved simplifies the management of the hospital's active prosecution docket and ensures that the technical review is handled by a single specialized group.
The busiest examiner is MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count matches the 1 total pending office actions for the company. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the current prosecution docket is concentrated under a single point of contact. This allows for a direct and focused dialogue with MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L regarding the 1 pending office action, without the need to coordinate across multiple examiners or technical groups, potentially leading to a more efficient resolution of the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737601 | SPINAL HOOK | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18737601 | SPINAL HOOK | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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