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
Sc Medical Pty Ltd. currently manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 1 pending office action, which represents the total active workload for the company at this time. This 1 action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LUAN, SCOTT. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus within the broader medical and mechanical sectors. The busiest examiner, LUAN, SCOTT, is responsible for 1 pending action, which is the entirety of the pending actions for the portfolio.
The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently facing a fragmented prosecution landscape. Instead, the company can focus its resources on the specific examination style of LUAN, SCOTT. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this 1 matter is the primary driver for the current state of the portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the progress within this 1 distinct art unit to understand the company's immediate patenting trajectory in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282367 | A MOBILE SELF-POWERED MEDICAL SERVICES TROLLEY FOR USE IN AN OPERATING THEATRE | LUAN, SCOTT | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282367 | A MOBILE SELF-POWERED MEDICAL SERVICES TROLLEY FOR USE IN AN OPERATING THEATRE | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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