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
Tim Nauwelaers has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MITCHELL BRAIN HOAG is the busiest examiner, responsible for the 1 pending office action. The prosecution for this profile is concentrated on a single application. With 1 distinct examiner, the interaction is limited to one official.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical evaluation remains within a specific administrative framework. Practitioners should address the specific concerns of MITCHELL BRAIN HOAG to advance the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is limited to the current filing, every administrative detail in the 1 distinct art unit is critical to the company's success. The focused nature of this prosecution allows for a deep dive into the specific preferences of the 1 official involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Success depends on addressing the technical concerns raised by the busiest examiner for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.4% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876436 | System and Method for Inserting an Electrode Lead into a Cochlea | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876436 | System and Method for Inserting an Electrode Lead into a Cochlea | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876436 | System and Method for Inserting an Electrode Lead into a Cochlea | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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