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
X-Ray Optics Inc. is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the pending workload in 1 art unit indicates a specific focus on medical or mechanical technologies that fall under a narrow classification within the patent office's organizational structure.
MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This figure matches the total number of pending office actions for the company, showing that prosecution is currently focused on the examiner's review. Practitioners managing this portfolio must account for the specific tendencies of this examiner, as there are no other active matters to balance the prosecution risk. The 1 pending action represents the current frontline of the company's efforts to secure patent rights in this technology space.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17735835 | COMPACT WIRELESS RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17735835 | COMPACT WIRELESS RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17735835 | COMPACT WIRELESS RANGE OF MOTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
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