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
Swsa Medical Ventures LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner, which indicates that the company is currently navigating a singular legal challenge at the patent office. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter falls within a specialized technical category.
FERNANDES, PATRICK M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents the total pending workload for the company, as there is only 1 pending office action overall. Practitioners should note that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the evaluation by this specific examiner within the designated art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 1 | 59.8% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17663892 | ASSEMBLIES INCLUDING AN OXYGEN-SENSING ASSEMBLY | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17663892 | ASSEMBLIES INCLUDING AN OXYGEN-SENSING ASSEMBLY | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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