Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc. holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The current prosecution activity is defined by 1 pending office action. This single active matter suggests a targeted effort to secure intellectual property for a specific chemical or material innovation related to surgical applications. This focus allows for a concentrated legal strategy on a prioritized technical advancement.
The portfolio is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company current filings are being evaluated by a single specialized group at the patent office. The lack of multiple examiners or art units suggests a focused technical scope for the pending applications, which can streamline the review process and reduce administrative complexity.
PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is the only official currently handling the company active prosecution. Consequently, the success of the company current filings depends on meeting the specific requirements and standards of this single examiner, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the active workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1 | 54.4% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17684043 | MESH AND USES THEREOF | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 36d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17684043 | MESH AND USES THEREOF | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17684043 | MESH AND USES THEREOF | PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA | 1783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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