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
Spine Doctors Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. All current pending prosecution is concentrated under this single examiner, which means the company's immediate patenting goals are tied to this individual's review.
The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering provides a clear technical context for the 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is straightforward and lacks the complexity of managing multiple examiners or art units. HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY serves as the primary authority for this matter. This concentration allows the applicant to tailor their response specifically to the requirements and preferences of a single examiner within a single technical group at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729828 | INTERVERTEBRAL INSERT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 68d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729828 | INTERVERTEBRAL INSERT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729828 | INTERVERTEBRAL INSERT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 68d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
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