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
Star BP Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within a distinct art unit. The focused nature of this portfolio suggests a highly specific prosecution footprint at this stage, allowing the applicant to dedicate resources to a single procedural path without the distractions of a larger, more diverse caseload.
MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling the aforementioned pending office action. Because the total number of active cases is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this individual and the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This concentration of work minimizes the complexity of managing multiple examiner relationships and ensures a unified approach to 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 49.5% | +34.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TREATING CARDIOVASCULAR IMPAIRMENT | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18586049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TREATING CARDIOVASCULAR IMPAIRMENT | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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