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
Traumec Tecnologia E Implantes Ortopédicos Importação E Exportação Ltda currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, CHANG, OLIVIA C. The portfolio is concentrated in a distinct art unit, reflecting a centralized prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHANG, OLIVIA C, who is responsible for the pending workload. This alignment suggests that the entirety of the company's current active matters is centralized under a specific individual and art unit. Practitioners should monitor historical trends in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to anticipate potential outcomes. The presence of a distinct examiner across the art unit simplifies the tracking of prosecution progress for this entity. This concentration allows for a specific approach to the pending office action, ensuring that all current legal efforts are directed toward a point of contact within the patent office. Analyzing the historical allowance rates for the art unit may provide further insight into the expected timeline for resolution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, OLIVIA C | 1 | 84.4% | +13.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416539 | IMPLANT WITH ADJUSTABLE PLATES FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY AND ITS USE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416539 | IMPLANT WITH ADJUSTABLE PLATES FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY AND ITS USE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18416539 | IMPLANT WITH ADJUSTABLE PLATES FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY AND ITS USE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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