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
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS. The prosecution is currently limited to a distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus. MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS is the busiest examiner, managing the busiest examiner pending action.
With 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, this segment of the hospital's portfolio is highly concentrated. This 1 pending office action is the primary focus of the institution's current interaction with the patent office in this area. The assignment to a distinct art unit indicates a specialized technical classification for the pending medical device technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17098784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17098784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17098784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2020 |
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