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
Vero Biotech LLC operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution profile features 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending subject matter is concentrated within a specific technical category. This allows for a more focused legal strategy as the company only needs to navigate the requirements of 1 administrative section of the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for Vero Biotech LLC is FREHE, WILLIAM R, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action that represents the company's total current activity. Consequently, the immediate trajectory of the company's patent filings is determined by the review of FREHE, WILLIAM R. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to address the specific concerns of this examiner. The 1 pending office action highlights a critical and focused stage in the development of the company's medical device portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREHE, WILLIAM R | 1 | 59.9% | +42.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16773707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING GASES INCLUDING NITRIC OXIDE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16773707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING GASES INCLUDING NITRIC OXIDE | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2020 |
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