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
Throat Scope Pty Ltd is navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, simplifying the administrative and legal strategy for the applicant. This focused profile suggests that the company is currently pursuing a specific innovation within the medical device field.
The busiest examiner, SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this indicates that the current prosecution success for the company is tied to the specific examination style of this one examiner within the medical device field. Navigating the 1 pending office action effectively will require a tailored approach that addresses the specific concerns of this 1 distinct examiner.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not have to manage the complexities of different USPTO departmental policies. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active challenges, and its resolution is the key to advancing the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. The 1 distinct examiner's feedback will be the primary factor in the company's immediate patenting strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 1 | 50.4% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17649909 | ORIFICE INSPECTION SYSTEM | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17649909 | ORIFICE INSPECTION SYSTEM | SHARPLESS, CHRISTEN ALICIA | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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