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
Stratus Medical, LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. JOANNE M RODDEN is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action.
The company's active prosecution is limited to this 1 pending action, which simplifies the management of its patent portfolio. Because there is only 1 examiner and 1 art unit involved, the company can focus its resources on this single interaction. This profile suggests a targeted approach to patenting within the medical device field. With 1 pending action, the company can prioritize its interactions with the assigned examiner to ensure a clear understanding of the prosecution requirements. This streamlined profile indicates a highly targeted and efficient approach to its current patent portfolio. The focus on 1 art unit suggests that the company's current innovation is technically specialized within the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODDEN, JOANNE M | 1 | 64.5% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19272521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY | RODDEN, JOANNE M | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19272521 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY | RODDEN, JOANNE M | 3794 | Other | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
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