Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
West Pharma Services Il Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the company's active patent applications. Despite this concentration, the 2 pending office actions are assigned to distinct examiners, requiring the applicant to navigate different sets of examiner expectations.
LAURA A BOUCHELLE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending action. With a total of distinct examiners for the pending office actions, each examiner is responsible for a single action. This distribution highlights that even within the 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution experience is divided, as no single examiner oversees all the pending matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Resolving these pending office actions requires individual attention to each of the distinct 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
| PONTON, JAMES D | 1 | 79.9% | +32.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836455 | CLOSED-LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 17764191 | MULTI-RATE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE | PONTON, JAMES D | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2022 |
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