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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Venus Concept Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON LANNU, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the company. Prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit. With LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company's immediate legal focus is limited to a single reviewer.
This lack of examiner diversity means that the progress of the portfolio is tied to the specific habits of one individual. Practitioners should be aware that with only 1 distinct art unit involved, there are no other concurrent applications to provide context on departmental trends. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a streamlined prosecution profile at this time.
Because the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the whole of the pending workload, the strategy must be highly tailored to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector's specific requirements. Aligning with the expectations of JOSHUA DARYL DEANON LANNU is essential for moving this single pending office action toward allowance. This centralized approach simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of a single examiner's discretion.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 1 | 82.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550901 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING THE SKIN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550901 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING THE SKIN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550901 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING THE SKIN | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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