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
Spark Assets LLC operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a consolidated approach to the company's current patent prosecution. This arrangement often results in a predictable prosecution timeline as the applicant addresses the concerns of a specific technical group.
GIBSON, ERIC SHANE is the busiest examiner for Spark Assets LLC, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual examiner is responsible for the portfolio's active office actions. Such a distribution means that the company's current prosecution efforts are handled by 1 examiner within a specific art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner to anticipate potential hurdles in the pending application during the review process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.4% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900021 | PIEZOELECTRIC SPINAL IMPLANT ASSEMBLY HAVING ENDPLATES WITH NON-PLANAR SURFACES | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900021 | PIEZOELECTRIC SPINAL IMPLANT ASSEMBLY HAVING ENDPLATES WITH NON-PLANAR SURFACES | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900021 | PIEZOELECTRIC SPINAL IMPLANT ASSEMBLY HAVING ENDPLATES WITH NON-PLANAR SURFACES | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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