Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Woodway Usa Inc. is navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite having 3 distinct examiners assigned to these matters, all prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications despite the variety of individual examiners involved. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit may lead to more consistent examination themes compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LETTERMAN, CATRINA A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 3 pending office actions are split among 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed at the individual level. Practitioners should note the concentration in the single art unit compared to the broader examiner pool, as the 3 distinct examiners are all operating within the same administrative group. This structure requires managing the individual styles of the various examiners while navigating the collective policies of their shared group.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 1 | 66.9% | +30.8% |
| MOORE, ZACHARY T | 1 | 72.3% | +35.5% |
| JALALZADEH ABYANE, SHILA | 1 | 50.6% | +48.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050707 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESTRICTING TRANSVERSE MOVEMENT OF A TREADMILL BELT | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | — |
| 18817122 | MANUALLY POWERED TREADMILL | MOORE, ZACHARY T | — |
| 18767866 | DIFFERENTIAL AIR PRESSURE EXERCISE AND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE | JALALZADEH ABYANE, SHILA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050707 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESTRICTING TRANSVERSE MOVEMENT OF A TREADMILL BELT | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18817122 | MANUALLY POWERED TREADMILL | MOORE, ZACHARY T | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18767866 | DIFFERENTIAL AIR PRESSURE EXERCISE AND THERAPEUTIC DEVICE | JALALZADEH ABYANE, SHILA | 3784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
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