Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UroViu Corp. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for their current patent prosecution efforts. The company's docket involves 2 distinct examiners, matching the total count of active matters. This distribution ensures that each filing is reviewed by a different official.
SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split between the assigned officials. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter falls within a narrow classification. This structure ensures that the 2 pending office actions are evaluated independently, even as they remain within the same technical group, with 1 pending office action assigned to each examiner.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | 1 | 47.7% | +28.6% |
| HENDERSON, RYAN N | 1 | 63.9% | +18.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209947 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH STEERABLE CANNULA | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 77d overdue |
| 19095283 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH SIDE-MOUNTABLE DISPOSABLE PORTION | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095283 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH SIDE-MOUNTABLE DISPOSABLE PORTION | SURGAN, ALEXANDRA L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18209947 | PORTABLE ENDOSCOPE WITH STEERABLE CANNULA | HENDERSON, RYAN N | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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