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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Socko Medical Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is handled by a single distinct examiner, which centralizes the company's legal efforts. The focus on this specific technology area suggests a specialized portfolio strategy.
The workload is contained within a single art unit, ensuring that the company's patent application is subject to the specific examination protocols of that department. This lack of departmental variety simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio's progress through the patent office.
LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this matter constitutes the entirety of the company's pending office actions, the interaction with this examiner is the sole determinant of the portfolio's immediate advancement.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 1 | 76.7% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18665662 | INTERVERTEBRAL SUPPORTING ELEMENT | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18665662 | INTERVERTEBRAL SUPPORTING ELEMENT | LITTLE, ANNA VICTORIA | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
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