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
Siesta Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within a single art unit. Christian D Knauss is the busiest examiner, holding the only pending office action. The company's current prosecution efforts are entirely focused on this one active matter, which is the only pending action in its portfolio.
All immediate patent office interaction is handled by Christian D Knauss, making his specific examination style and the standards of his art unit the primary factors for the company's current applications. This concentration means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on navigating the specific requirements of this one examiner. Practitioners should focus on the technical feedback provided by Christian D Knauss to effectively advance the company's interests within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.2% | +33.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977243 | SUTURE PASSER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TONGUE OR OTHER TISSUE SUSPENSION AND COMPRESSION | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977243 | SUTURE PASSER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TONGUE OR OTHER TISSUE SUSPENSION AND COMPRESSION | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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