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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by a distinct examiner, KHANDKER, RAIHAN R. This examiner is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action currently under review. The portfolio's activity is limited to a distinct art unit.
This concentration in an art unit and examiner suggests the pending office action is being reviewed within a specific technical group. The prosecution of this action represents the total current pending activity for the corporation in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. KHANDKER, RAIHAN R manages the workload of the busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only a distinct art unit involved, the action is subject to specific examination criteria within that unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 1 | 64.4% | +55.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873033 | MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENT DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO ENHANCE EXTRACTION OF SURGICAL SPECIMENS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873033 | MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENT DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO ENHANCE EXTRACTION OF SURGICAL SPECIMENS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873033 | MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENT DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO ENHANCE EXTRACTION OF SURGICAL SPECIMENS | KHANDKER, RAIHAN R | 3771 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRoswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Raihan R Khandker has the most, with 1 of Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.