Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Point Designs Inc. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions in its portfolio. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. CROWE, RAEGAN NADIA is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions, while the remaining action is assigned to another examiner.
The prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that despite having 2 distinct examiners, all of the company's 3 pending office actions are being reviewed within the same technical division of the patent office. For the company, this means that while they must manage different examiner styles, the procedural rules of the art unit remain consistent. The fact that the busiest examiner has 2 pending actions suggests a significant concentration of the company's current legal matters under one individual.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROWE, RAEGAN NADIA | 2 | — | — |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.8% | +13.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17571773 | Prosthetic Partial Fingers | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18375949 | LINKAGE SYSTEM FOR A POWERED PROSTHETIC DEVICE | CROWE, RAEGAN NADIA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18375951 | GEAR SYSTEM FOR A POWERED PROSTHETIC DEVICE | CROWE, RAEGAN NADIA | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 17571773 | Prosthetic Partial Fingers | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103DPOther | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Jan 10, 2022 |
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