Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Willowwood Global LLC is currently addressing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a broad and diversified prosecution landscape where no two active matters are being reviewed by the same person or department. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property covers a variety of technical sub-specialties within its primary field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 action, the workload is balanced across the portfolio. For practitioners, this means that the company must navigate three different sets of examiner preferences and 3 distinct art unit standards simultaneously. There is no consolidation of authority, which prevents the company from leveraging a single examiner's favorable history across multiple applications. Instead, the prosecution team must develop unique strategies for each of the 3 pending office actions, accounting for the specific procedural norms of each separate department involved in the review process.
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 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.2% | +35.6% |
| ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL | 1 | 67.2% | +39.3% |
| SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 1 | 75.4% | +8.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373498 | ANKLE SYSTEM FOR USE WITH PROSTHETIC FOOT STRUCTURE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
| 17953903 | CONDUCTIVE HUMAN INTERFACES | ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18373498 | ANKLE SYSTEM FOR USE WITH PROSTHETIC FOOT STRUCTURE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 17953903 | CONDUCTIVE HUMAN INTERFACES | ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17720999 | SHOCK ABSORBER SYSTEM FOR A PROSTHESIS | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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