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
Securisyn Medical LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the 1 pending office action is reviewed by a single individual. Practitioners should address the requirements of DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH, who manages the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area provides the technical framework for this filing.
The prosecution outcome depends on the interpretation of the assigned examiner. Practitioners can focus on the standards of the specific art unit involved. This structure allows for a strategy directed at the individual examiner feedback rather than coordinating across multiple office departments.
Administrative tasks are limited by the number of active examiners and art units. Efforts should be made to understand the examiner review style and past actions. Communication with the assigned individual is a method for navigating the current prosecution phase and resolving the outstanding action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 57.6% | +49.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17909364 | ADJUSTABLE AIRWAY STABILIZATION SYSTEM FOR PATIENT FACIAL GEOMETRIES OF VARIOUS SIZES AND FOR PEDIATRIC AND NEONATAL APPLICATIONS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17909364 | ADJUSTABLE AIRWAY STABILIZATION SYSTEM FOR PATIENT FACIAL GEOMETRIES OF VARIOUS SIZES AND FOR PEDIATRIC AND NEONATAL APPLICATIONS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17909364 | ADJUSTABLE AIRWAY STABILIZATION SYSTEM FOR PATIENT FACIAL GEOMETRIES OF VARIOUS SIZES AND FOR PEDIATRIC AND NEONATAL APPLICATIONS | DITMER, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2022 |
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