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 Ritedose Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's active prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused approach to its current medical device filings, where the company is likely seeking protection for a specific mechanical innovation. The lack of multiple pending actions or art units suggests a streamlined portfolio management strategy at this stage. This concentration allows for a dedicated legal focus on a single examination process.
LOUIS, LATOYA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. The examiner's specific review within the 1 art unit will determine the immediate success of the company's mechanical engineering patent strategy. Practitioners must carefully address the requirements of this 1 examiner to advance the 1 pending action. The company's current intellectual property trajectory is entirely shaped by the outcome of this single examination process. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on this individual review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, LATOYA M | 1 | 52.2% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17542004 | NEBULIZER DISINFECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 58d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17542004 | NEBULIZER DISINFECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 58d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17542004 | NEBULIZER DISINFECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | LOUIS, LATOYA M | 3785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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