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
Rockport Medical Technologies LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated intellectual property strategy. The examiner overseeing this matter is DARB, HAMZA A., who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio.
The workload for DARB, HAMZA A. consists of a busiest examiner pending action. This specific action represents the total current pending office actions for Rockport Medical Technologies LLC in this sector. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the prosecution team can focus on the preferences and historical patterns of this individual.
The concentration within a distinct art unit simplifies the technical requirements for the legal team. Practitioners can tailor their arguments to the specific standards of that unit without worrying about conflicting interpretations from other examiners. Success in this portfolio depends on the effective resolution of the application currently under review. By focusing on the specific feedback from DARB, HAMZA A., the company can navigate its current patent challenges in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16610357 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SENSOR-ENHANCED NEEDLE PLACEMENT | DARB, HAMZA A. | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16610357 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SENSOR-ENHANCED NEEDLE PLACEMENT | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2019 |
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