Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
U.S. Patent Innovations, LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing that different officials are reviewing the company's active matters. Furthermore, the involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the current prosecution workload is spread across two different technical divisions within the patent office.
ZINK, AMANDA L is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means that each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling 1 of the 2 pending office actions. For practitioners, this distribution suggests a diversified prosecution landscape even within the same technology area. The presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a strategy that can adapt to the different standards and perspectives of two separate technical groups. The data reflects a balanced but multi-faceted approach to the company's current patenting activities.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZINK, AMANDA L | 1 | 85.2% | +3.1% |
| MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 1 | 47.4% | +47.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832311 | ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE NON-THERMAL PLASMA CONTROL | ZINK, AMANDA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280062 | ROBOTIC COLD ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 103d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280062 | ROBOTIC COLD ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 103d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832311 | ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE NON-THERMAL PLASMA CONTROL | ZINK, AMANDA L | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18280062 | ROBOTIC COLD ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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