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
Ravden Group LLC currently manages a portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, which contains 1 pending office action. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of this pending action suggests a specific engagement with the patent office in this technology sector.
GLORIA M HALE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, holding the busiest examiner pending action currently on record. This examiner's involvement represents the company's active prosecution efforts. Furthermore, the work is confined to 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's current legal strategy is not yet diversified across different examination divisions. Practitioners should note that the portfolio's metrics are entirely dependent on the progress of this individual case. The focus on the 1 art unit and examiner means the company has a narrow exposure to USPTO personnel at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALE, GLORIA M | 1 | 72.9% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19260921 | UNDERGARMENT FOR WOMEN WITH SLEEVES | HALE, GLORIA M | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19260921 | UNDERGARMENT FOR WOMEN WITH SLEEVES | HALE, GLORIA M | 3732 | DP | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
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