Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sv Swissvortex AG is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates a broad technical spread for the company's current filings.
BARIA, DINAH N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, the prosecution activity is dispersed across different specialized units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.8% | +40.2% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 64.1% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266510 | LEAFLET RESTRAINTS | BARIA, DINAH N | 17d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266492 | INTRAVASCULAR BENDING OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 42d overdue |
| 18266510 | LEAFLET RESTRAINTS | BARIA, DINAH N | 17d overdue |
| 18043197 | INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM PROTECTION | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18266510 | LEAFLET RESTRAINTS | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18266492 | INTRAVASCULAR BENDING OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 18043197 | INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM PROTECTION | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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