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 Otters Company, LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves the distinct examiner HOEY, ALISSA L, who is also the busiest examiner in the portfolio. The busiest examiner is responsible for the pending office action. This unified prosecution strategy ensures that all current activity is managed by the identified examiner and art unit.
The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification indicates a focus on physical apparatus or mechanical systems. Working with HOEY, ALISSA L provides an opportunity to establish a stable prosecution history for the pending application. This centralized approach reduces the administrative burden of tracking multiple examiners across different divisions. The legal strategy can be tailored to the specific examination patterns observed within the art unit. The presence of HOEY, ALISSA L as the sole examiner for the pending matter allows for a direct and focused response to any office actions. The current portfolio activity is characterized by its technical concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEY, ALISSA L | 1 | 44.5% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18354749 | Stabilizing Lower-Body Swimming Garment | HOEY, ALISSA L | 535d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18354749 | Stabilizing Lower-Body Swimming Garment | HOEY, ALISSA L | 535d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18354749 | Stabilizing Lower-Body Swimming Garment | HOEY, ALISSA L | 3732 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 535d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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