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
Tg Medwise Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly concentrated prosecution profile. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NICHOLS, CHARLES W, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This means that the company's immediate patent goals are entirely dependent on the review of this 1 individual within a single administrative unit.
The involvement of only 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the 1 pending action simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property. However, it also means there is no diversification in the company's current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this 1 examiner to effectively navigate the pending action. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests a targeted technical scope for the company's current active filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICHOLS, CHARLES W | 1 | 56.0% | +54.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485451 | SUBSTANCE DELIVERY DEVICE | NICHOLS, CHARLES W | 5d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485451 | SUBSTANCE DELIVERY DEVICE | NICHOLS, CHARLES W | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18485451 | SUBSTANCE DELIVERY DEVICE | NICHOLS, CHARLES W | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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