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
Wound Pros Technology Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical review process. Such focus can be beneficial for maintaining consistency across related patent applications and streamlining the company's legal efforts.
The portfolio's current prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. WOLFF, ARIELLE R is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's current legal challenges are distributed among the assigned examiners, providing a balanced workload across the examining staff and ensuring that no specific examiner's perspective dominates the company's current patent prospects.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
| THOMAS, MIA M | 1 | 86.3% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914907 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING WOUND HEALING | THOMAS, MIA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974202 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING MORE EFFECTIVE COMPRESSION THERAPY | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 19d overdue |
| 18914907 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING WOUND HEALING | THOMAS, MIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974202 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING MORE EFFECTIVE COMPRESSION THERAPY | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18914907 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING WOUND HEALING | THOMAS, MIA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
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