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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teleflex Life Sciences Ii LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to the distinct examiner LEWIS, KIM M, who handles the busiest examiner workload for the firm. The concentration of the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused prosecution effort where all current activity is centralized rather than distributed across multiple departments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, KIM M | 1 | 74.0% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19211685 | ANTIMICROBIAL HEMOSTATIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE AND MAKING | LEWIS, KIM M | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19211685 | ANTIMICROBIAL HEMOSTATIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE AND MAKING | LEWIS, KIM M | 3786 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
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