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
Rlfa Biomedical Innovations Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and manages the 1 pending office action. The art unit assignment reflects the technical classification of the company's current filing. Practitioners should monitor the busiest examiner for updates on the pending matter. The current administrative footprint is limited to a point of review within the patent office.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 1 | 61.0% | +38.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17406067 | ANKLE PROSTHESIS | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17406067 | ANKLE PROSTHESIS | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17406067 | ANKLE PROSTHESIS | WATKINS, MARCIA LYNN | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2021 |
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