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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rotation Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. The use of 1 art unit for multiple examiners indicates a specific technical focus for the company's pending applications. This structure allows the company to concentrate its prosecution efforts within a single administrative department, potentially leading to more consistent results across its 2 pending matters.
MARCELA SHIRSAT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution requires the company to manage 2 separate examiner relationships within the same 1 art unit. Practitioners should monitor how these 2 distinct examiners interpret the technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area, as their individual decisions will impact the entirety of the company's current pending portfolio. The focus on 1 art unit suggests that the company's innovation is highly specialized within this technology sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.6% | +19.0% |
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020384 | MEDICAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18779403 | TENDON REPAIR IMPLANT AND METHOD OF IMPLANTATION | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020384 | MEDICAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 3775 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18779403 | TENDON REPAIR IMPLANT AND METHOD OF IMPLANTATION | BARIA, DINAH N | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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