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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vitestro Holding B V currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is distributed across a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution footprint. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HENSON, DEVIN B, who is responsible for the pending office action.
The presence of a single examiner and art unit suggests that the company's current interactions with the patent office are focused on a specific technological niche. Because HENSON, DEVIN B handles the only pending matter, the entirety of the portfolio's active prosecution is currently managed by an individual. This concentration allows for a direct line of communication but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives across the portfolio. For a practitioner, the outcome of the current prosecution depends entirely on the interpretation of an examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, rather than a broader pool of examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.0% | +43.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868615 | CANNULA SET LOADING UNIT, CANNULA SET LOADING DEVICE AND CANNULA INSERTION SYSTEM | HENSON, DEVIN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868615 | CANNULA SET LOADING UNIT, CANNULA SET LOADING DEVICE AND CANNULA INSERTION SYSTEM | HENSON, DEVIN B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868615 | CANNULA SET LOADING UNIT, CANNULA SET LOADING DEVICE AND CANNULA INSERTION SYSTEM | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
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