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
Tympany Medical Limited currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that the company's current prosecution is split between different individuals and technical groups, ensuring that each matter is reviewed independently.
The busiest examiner, BRUTUS, JOEL F, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are shared equally between the 2 distinct examiners. For practitioners, this distribution means that the company must manage two separate relationships at the patent office, as no single examiner is overseeing more than one pending action.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is being classified into different specialized categories. With 2 pending office actions and a busiest examiner pending count of 1, the prosecution strategy is decentralized across the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 83.0% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18274108 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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