Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vesper Medical Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's technical filings are being reviewed under different administrative frameworks within the patent office.
The prosecution process involves 2 distinct examiners, providing multiple perspectives on the pending applications. MANNAN, MIKAIL A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that the workload is shared among the 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio's current matters.
With the portfolio spanning 2 distinct art units, practitioners must navigate the specific guidelines and technical expectations of each unit. The presence of multiple examiners means that the prosecution strategy should be tailored to the individual preferences of each official. This diversified landscape in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering requires a more broad-based approach than a more centralized portfolio.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.5% | +23.5% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.2% | +33.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17846070 | ROTARY HANDLE STENT DELIVERY DEVICE WITH TIMING BELT CONNECTOR | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 19d overdue |
| 17589054 | ROTARY HANDLE STENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17846070 | ROTARY HANDLE STENT DELIVERY DEVICE WITH TIMING BELT CONNECTOR | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17589054 | ROTARY HANDLE STENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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