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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Proverum Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. SHARMA, YASHITA is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action.
This singular focus indicates a very specific technical niche for the company's current patent efforts. Practitioners can expect a very direct line of communication with the patent office through this specific examiner and art unit. This single matter constitutes the entire pending workload for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.8% | +24.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19416994 | CATHETER FOR DEPLOYING AN EXPANDER IN A URETHRA | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19416994 | CATHETER FOR DEPLOYING AN EXPANDER IN A URETHRA | SHARMA, YASHITA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19416994 | CATHETER FOR DEPLOYING AN EXPANDER IN A URETHRA | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
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