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
Southern Cross Patents Pty Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution. The activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific area of mechanical or medical innovation.
The busiest examiner identified is GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the portfolio only contains 1 distinct examiner, GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE is handling all current pending matters. This means the 1 pending office action is the only active hurdle in the company's reported prosecution pipeline.
Practitioners managing this portfolio can focus on the 1 distinct art unit and the specific requirements of GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE. With only 1 pending office action, the immediate success of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio relies on this 1 interaction. The data shows no other examiners or art units are currently involved in pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490669 | PEDICLE SCREWS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490669 | PEDICLE SCREWS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18490669 | PEDICLE SCREWS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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