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
Wildhurst Surgical Technologies LLC is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's current intellectual property efforts. The matter is being reviewed by a single examiner, which centralizes the prosecution process.
The busiest examiner identified is WEISS, JESSICA, who is responsible for the company's active workload. Because this is the only case in the portfolio, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the current filings. The presence of just a single examiner and art unit suggests that the company is pursuing a very specific patent goal. This concentration allows for a dedicated prosecution strategy without the complexities of managing multiple examiners or different art unit standards. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the resolution of this single pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, JESSICA | 1 | 81.0% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896866 | Eccentrically rotating cutting tool | WEISS, JESSICA | 51d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896866 | Eccentrically rotating cutting tool | WEISS, JESSICA | 51d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18896866 | Eccentrically rotating cutting tool | WEISS, JESSICA | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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