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
VENCLOSE, INC. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is overseen by a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit. ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action.
The active prosecution indicates a small footprint in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space. Because the portfolio features only a single distinct examiner, ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M, the results are currently dependent on a single examiner's review. The involvement of a sole distinct art unit confirms that the pending matters are being processed through a single administrative channel. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is highly centralized and lacks the complexity of multi-examiner portfolios. The success of the current intellectual property strategy for VENCLOSE, INC. is tied to the resolution of this single pending office action within the specified art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 46.3% | +49.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17239210 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VENOUS DISEASE TREATMENT | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17239210 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VENOUS DISEASE TREATMENT | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
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