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 Whiteley Clinic Limited is currently addressing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused effort within a specific medical or mechanical field. This singular focus simplifies the management of the company's patent interests at the office, as there is no need to navigate the differing procedural requirements of multiple technical groups. The company can focus its strategy on the specific technical standards prevalent in this 1 distinct art unit.
EKRAMI, YASAMIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate prosecution success depends on the specific feedback and requirements of this individual. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the particular standards of the art unit and the individual preferences of the 1 distinct examiner. Because there is only a single pending matter, the relationship with this assigned official is the most critical factor in the company's current patent prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 1 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16345618 | Cooling Device | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16345618 | Cooling Device | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 26, 2019 |
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