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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
TricorBraun Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is being processed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated prosecution profile suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are highly specialized and focused on a specific technical niche within the broader medical and mechanical fields. The presence of only 1 active matter indicates a period of low-volume prosecution activity for the firm.
The busiest examiner for the company is PANCHOLI, VISHAL J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since this 1 pending action represents the entirety of the company's current workload, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific examiner. For practitioners, this means that the examiner's individual tendencies and the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit will be the primary factors determining the success of the current portfolio. There is no distribution of risk or workload across different examiners at this time.
The alignment of the company's 1 pending action with a single examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector provides a clear and direct path for prosecution. This lack of complexity in the administrative structure can simplify communication and tracking for the legal team. However, it also means that any challenges encountered with PANCHOLI, VISHAL J will affect the company's entire pending patent presence. The focus on a single art unit further underscores the specialized nature of the technology currently being sought for protection.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 1 | 72.8% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437787 | DISPENSER CAP GUARD | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 150d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437787 | DISPENSER CAP GUARD | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 150d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18437787 | DISPENSER CAP GUARD | PANCHOLI, VISHAL J | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 150d overdue | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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