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
Spinthyr Technologies LLC is currently overseeing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LONG, SARAH A, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated prosecution strategy.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current efforts are focused on a single technical hurdle. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner, LONG, SARAH A, means that the prosecution outcome depends on a single individual's interpretation of the claims. Because the technology falls under Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, the 1 distinct art unit likely applies specific mechanical and safety standards to the application.
The streamlined nature of this portfolio, with the single examiner and the specific unit, allows for a very specific legal focus. There is no need to coordinate between different examiners or manage conflicting art unit requirements. However, this also means the company has no other active matters to offset any potential difficulties encountered with the 1 pending office action currently under review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861976 | CHEST BOLT AND THORACOSTOMY BOLT | LONG, SARAH A | 28d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861976 | CHEST BOLT AND THORACOSTOMY BOLT | LONG, SARAH A | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861976 | CHEST BOLT AND THORACOSTOMY BOLT | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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