Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Surgical Fusion Technologies GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the 1 pending office action is being reviewed by a specific technical group within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The busiest examiner for the company is LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the total 1 pending office action for the company. For the practitioner, the 1 distinct examiner, LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES, is the sole individual reviewing the company's current filings. The focus within 1 distinct art unit means the 1 pending office action will be subject to the specific examination practices of that unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.7% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605553 | SONOTRODE DEVICE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18605553 | SONOTRODE DEVICE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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