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
Purcell Global Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action under review. This activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a singular focus for the current prosecution efforts in the medical device sector.
The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit. BALLER, KELSEY E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. This individual is responsible for the total active workload currently reported for the company.
Such a concentrated workload suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is tied to a specific mechanical innovation. Practitioners should focus on maintaining a consistent technical dialogue with the assigned examiner to ensure that the unique aspects of the medical device are clearly understood.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLER, KELSEY E | 1 | 62.4% | +59.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916817 | INHALER SYSTEMS | BALLER, KELSEY E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17916817 | INHALER SYSTEMS | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
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