Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qfix Systems LLC is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow technical and administrative focus. This level of concentration means that the entire pending portfolio is subject to the review of a single individual within the USPTO.
Victoria Hicks Fisher is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means she is handling the entirety of the company's pending workload. Practitioners can focus their strategy exclusively on Victoria Hicks Fisher to resolve these matters. Dealing with only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution process, as there is no need to reconcile different examiner perspectives or art unit practices across the applications.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 2 | 40.5% | +38.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779729 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
| 16917232 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18779729 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
| 16917232 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18779729 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 16917232 | ADJUSTABLE IMMOBILIZER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT | FISHER, VICTORIA HICKS | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2020 |
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