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
Rtrs Investment LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action represents the entire active workload for the company's patent portfolio. The focus on this specific technology area indicates the primary field of innovation currently being pursued by the entity.
The prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This means that all current patent office interactions are funneled through a single administrative channel. There is no diversification of examiners or art units, which simplifies the communication process but also means that the portfolio's immediate success is tied to a single examiner's perspective.
PATEL, YOGESH P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the full volume of the company's current prosecution. Practitioners will interact exclusively with PATEL, YOGESH P for all matters currently awaiting a response from the office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, YOGESH P | 1 | 57.9% | +58.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18193943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STERILE DELIVERY OF PROSTHESES | PATEL, YOGESH P | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18193943 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STERILE DELIVERY OF PROSTHESES | PATEL, YOGESH P | 3772 | §102 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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