Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensile Medical AG is currently processing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which may lead to different prosecution styles even within the same company portfolio. Both actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the technical subject matter is closely related. This allows the company to see how different individuals interpret the same technical standards in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The busiest examiner, RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW, is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This constitutes one of the 2 pending office actions currently active. Having 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit provides a baseline for comparing examiner behavior within a single USPTO division. Practitioners should be prepared to reconcile the 2 pending office actions if the 2 distinct examiners issue conflicting requirements, ensuring that the overall strategy for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio remains consistent.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | DARB, HAMZA A. | 10d overdue |
| 18281784 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281784 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18460719 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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