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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thrive Orthopedics, LLC has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KEVIN S ALBERS, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific technical focus for the company's current pending application. The alignment of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized filing strategy.
KEVIN S ALBERS is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 1 pending office action currently active. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution activity is highly concentrated. This allows for a singular focus on the feedback and requirements of the 1 distinct examiner involved. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner means that all current patent office feedback for the company originates from a single source.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to this 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical classification. The company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the active office action under the review of 1 distinct examiner. This structure provides a direct and uncomplicated path for addressing patent office feedback within its primary technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 26.6% | +49.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103431 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS WITH TRACK SYSTEM AND MECHANISM | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 16d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103431 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS WITH TRACK SYSTEM AND MECHANISM | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103431 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS WITH TRACK SYSTEM AND MECHANISM | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
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