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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Foundry LLC operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape is defined by 1 pending office action, representing the current workload before the USPTO. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES, who is the only examiner identified in the data. Additionally, the portfolio's activity is confined to a distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical direction for the pending medical device claims. WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES is the busiest examiner, with the busiest examiner pending action currently under review.
For patent practitioners, the presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly concentrated prosecution strategy. Since a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit are involved, the company can focus its resources on the specific requirements and historical trends of that single examination environment. The fact that WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES handles the busiest examiner pending action confirms that all current USPTO interactions are centralized. This focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector allows for a precise approach to addressing office actions and technical hurdles.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 58.8% | +60.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17596532 | MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17596532 | MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES | 3700 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
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