Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rapid Medical Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending action. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that the current pending matters are being prosecuted in separate environments.
For practitioners, the distribution across 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be customized for different technical standards. Because BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN handles 1 pending action, no individual examiner dominates the current portfolio. This structure requires a case-by-case approach to each pending matter, as there is no overlap in the personnel or art units currently reviewing the company's applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 1 | 71.4% | +40.0% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597546 | SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING FRICTION IN ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 5d overdue |
| 18719614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL CONTROL OF ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL CONTROL OF ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES | BARKER, DAYTON HYUN JIN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18597546 | SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING FRICTION IN ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
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