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
Rory Gahart's portfolio includes 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The singular nature of these figures points to a very specific and limited engagement with the patent office at this time. Having only 1 distinct art unit involved means the applicant does not have to manage differing procedural expectations across multiple units.
HODGE, LINDA J is the busiest examiner, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the outcome of the pending application is entirely dependent on this specific channel. This concentration simplifies the tracking of prosecution milestones but offers no diversity in examiner interaction. For a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, the success of the 1 pending office action is critical to the applicant's current patent strategy. The relationship with HODGE, LINDA J is the primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775716 | SECURING CONTAINER HOLDERS TO CONTAINERS | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775716 | SECURING CONTAINER HOLDERS TO CONTAINERS | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18775716 | SECURING CONTAINER HOLDERS TO CONTAINERS | HODGE, LINDA J | 3725 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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