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
Soliver AB currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution activity is concentrated, as evidenced by 1 pending office action. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow distribution suggests a specific technological focus or a nascent stage of portfolio development in the United States, requiring precise oversight.
The busiest examiner for the company is MURPHY, VICTORIA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this indicates that the immediate prosecution strategy is tied to the decisions of an individual. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification further confirms that the current legal challenges are localized. This concentration allows the applicant to focus resources on a set of patentability arguments.
With the busiest examiner handling 1 pending case, the administrative burden is minimal. The reliance on MURPHY, VICTORIA means the outcome of the current portfolio expansion depends on this interaction. This concentration allows for a specific response strategy tailored to the preferences of the examiner rather than a broad multi-front prosecution effort across 1 distinct art unit. Successful navigation of the 1 pending case is essential for growth.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.2% | +46.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246954 | FACE MASK | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18246954 | FACE MASK | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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