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
Primo Medical Group maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape includes 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a highly concentrated examination process where the company's active matter is overseen by 1 individual. The portfolio is currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical scope for the pending application.
JAFFRI, ZEHRA is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action currently on record. Because the company has 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely centralized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the immediate success of the company's efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with JAFFRI, ZEHRA as this examiner holds the entirety of the company's pending workload. This centralized structure means that the company's current medical device strategy depends on the specific feedback from this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.8% | +51.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION AND FIXATION OF FRACTURES AND TISSUES | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION AND FIXATION OF FRACTURES AND TISSUES | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION AND FIXATION OF FRACTURES AND TISSUES | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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