Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Ventis Medical Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This filing is currently assigned to a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated portfolio indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts in the mechanical systems space. This alignment suggests that the company is targeting a narrow technological niche within the broader transportation and mechanical categories.
The busiest examiner identified is TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is handling the company's entire active docket. Prosecution strategy for this portfolio is currently dependent on the specific preferences and history of this examiner and the 1 distinct art unit involved. Any developments in this active case will define the company's immediate success at the patent office. TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL will be the primary official for this matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | 1 | 47.9% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820874 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF ADMINISTERING A STATUS CHECK TO A MEDICAL DEVICE | TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18820874 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF ADMINISTERING A STATUS CHECK TO A MEDICAL DEVICE | TOMASZEWSKI, MICHAEL | 3681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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