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
Scv Delivery Systems LLC is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a focused prosecution effort. The company's active matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is specialized and remains within a specific examination group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is the matter currently under review. The 1 distinct examiner is the point of contact for the company's applications. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of the 1 distinct examiner. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area is the primary domain for these intellectual property efforts, and the 1 distinct art unit provides the regulatory framework for the current workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 1 | 35.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17995925 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR SUBCLAVIAN VEIN CATHETER PLACEMENT | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 97d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17995925 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR SUBCLAVIAN VEIN CATHETER PLACEMENT | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17995925 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR SUBCLAVIAN VEIN CATHETER PLACEMENT | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
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