Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Robocath currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a unified technical focus for the company's current patent filings. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, each reviewing a pending matter. This arrangement requires the applicant to address the specific technical perspectives of different reviewers within the same administrative group.
LANGE, ERIC A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. While there are 2 distinct examiners, the fact that they both operate within 1 distinct art unit may lead to more consistent procedural requirements. Practitioners should monitor the 2 pending office actions for any shared feedback patterns within this specific art unit. Ensuring that arguments remain consistent across the various reviewers is vital for a cohesive intellectual property strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGE, ERIC A | 1 | 77.5% | +12.4% |
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259558 | CATHETER ROBOT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TRANSLATION MODULES FOR LONG FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 14d |
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18692856 | CATHETERIZATION ROBOT | LANGE, ERIC A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18259558 | CATHETER ROBOT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO TRANSLATION MODULES FOR LONG FLEXIBLE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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