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
S&G Biotech Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with a portfolio that currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The 1 pending office action constitutes the entirety of the current prosecution workload for this examiner.
The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical scope for the pending matters. For a practitioner, the concentration of the pending workload under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the prosecution process. There are no competing examiner styles or art unit requirements to manage. Instead, the strategy revolves around the 1 pending office action and the specific feedback from THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE. This centralized structure allows for a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, with the outcome tied to this 1 examination path.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215478 | STENT DELIVERY DEVICE | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18215478 | STENT DELIVERY DEVICE | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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