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
Seven Sons Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution activity is very focused, with only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. This suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy, likely centered on a specific medical innovation or mechanical device. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is categorized within a specific medical niche.
The busiest examiner, RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner pending count are each 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active workload at the patent office. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome of the portfolio's current prosecution phase depends on the interactions with this official. Practitioners should analyze the historical patterns of RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO to anticipate the likely trajectory of this single pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010150 | A BODY OF THE DEVICE TO POSITION A CORONARY STENT IN CORONARY ARTERIES OR PULL A CATHETER TRANSDUCER FOR INTRA VASCULAR ULTRASOUND | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18010150 | A BODY OF THE DEVICE TO POSITION A CORONARY STENT IN CORONARY ARTERIES OR PULL A CATHETER TRANSDUCER FOR INTRA VASCULAR ULTRASOUND | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSeven Sons Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gabriella Giselle Bono Rios has the most, with 1 of Seven Sons Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.