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
Venaera Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner, DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL, and is located in a distinct art unit. DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
The presence of a distinct art unit for the pending action shows a very focused prosecution effort. With only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to this single examiner. This means that DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL is responsible for the review of the company's entire active medical device patent matter. This centralized structure allows the company to concentrate its resources on a specific technical challenge while navigating the examination process with one primary point of contact.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL | 1 | 79.8% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612889 | Control System And Air Source Heat Pump | DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612889 | Control System And Air Source Heat Pump | DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18612889 | Control System And Air Source Heat Pump | DIAZ, MIGUEL ANGEL | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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