Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Restoration Biologics LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. ERIC BRANDON WRIGHT is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused technical scope. However, with 3 distinct examiners involved, each pending action is being reviewed independently. Practitioners should be prepared for different examiner perspectives despite the shared art unit for these 3 pending office actions.
The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the 3 pending office actions are technically related within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. ERIC BRANDON WRIGHT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is one-third of the current pending workload. Each of the 3 pending office actions is assigned to a different one of the 3 distinct examiners. This structure requires practitioners to manage 3 separate examiner relationships. While the art unit remains constant, the 3 distinct examiners may have varying interpretations of the technology. Practitioners must tailor their approach for each of the 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1 | — | — |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.4% | +37.3% |
| MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1 | 62.5% | +47.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729386 | SHAPED TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESS TO MAINTAIN PROPERTIES | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 17d overdue |
| 18946035 | Methods for Improving Tissue Graft Storage Conditions through the Reduction of Senescence | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | — |
| 18729369 | TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESSING METHODS | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729386 | SHAPED TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESS TO MAINTAIN PROPERTIES | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 17d overdue |
| 18729369 | TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESSING METHODS | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946035 | Methods for Improving Tissue Graft Storage Conditions through the Reduction of Senescence | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18729386 | SHAPED TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESS TO MAINTAIN PROPERTIES | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18729369 | TISSUE GRAFT AND PROCESSING METHODS | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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