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
Somavac Medical Solutions Inc. is currently addressing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across a matching number of 2 distinct examiners, which introduces some variety in the examination styles the company must navigate. Despite having multiple examiners involved, the portfolio remains centralized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the underlying technology is categorized consistently by the patent office.
RASSAVONG, ERIC is the busiest examiner for the company, though they are only managing 1 pending office action. This means that the total pending office actions are split evenly between the assigned examiners. For practitioners, this distribution requires tailored strategies for each examiner while maintaining a unified approach for the single art unit involved. The presence of multiple distinct examiners for only a few actions indicates that the company is not currently facing a bottleneck with any single individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
| ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 1 | 68.1% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18959192 | Portable Device With Disposable Reservoir For Collection Of Internal Fluid After Surgery From A Plurality Of Sites Simultaneously | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18157218 | ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR CONTROLLED AND MEASURED COLLECTED INTERNAL FLUID AFTER SURGERY | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 75d |
| 18959192 | Portable Device With Disposable Reservoir For Collection Of Internal Fluid After Surgery From A Plurality Of Sites Simultaneously | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18959192 | Portable Device With Disposable Reservoir For Collection Of Internal Fluid After Surgery From A Plurality Of Sites Simultaneously | RASSAVONG, ERIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18157218 | ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR CONTROLLED AND MEASURED COLLECTED INTERNAL FLUID AFTER SURGERY | ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA | 3781 | §103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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