Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.4% | +37.3% |
| BURGESS, JAMES DAVID | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887559 | ONE-TIME USE EXPANDABLE SPECULUM | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18887559 | ONE-TIME USE EXPANDABLE SPECULUM | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18646181 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF FLUORESCEIN SODIUM FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF CERVICAL CANCER | BURGESS, JAMES DAVID | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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