Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xmetix Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is split between different technical groups and individual officials at the USPTO, requiring a multifaceted legal strategy.
XU, JUSTIN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is 2, the workload is divided between XU, JUSTIN and one other examiner, with each handling 1 pending action. This balance means that no single examiner or art unit dominates the company's current pending docket, allowing for a variety of prosecution experiences within the medical devices and mechanical engineering sector.
The presence of 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units suggests that Xmetix Ltd. is pursuing intellectual property across multiple specialized classifications. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 distinct sets of deadlines and examiner preferences. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering provides a broad technical context for these separate prosecution efforts, requiring coordination across different USPTO groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706980 | INJURY DETECTION WEARABLE SYSTEM | XU, JUSTIN | 2d overdue |
| 18281335 | AUTOMATIC TOURNIQUET AND AUTOMATIC PREVENTION OF BLEEDING USING SAME | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706980 | INJURY DETECTION WEARABLE SYSTEM | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18281335 | AUTOMATIC TOURNIQUET AND AUTOMATIC PREVENTION OF BLEEDING USING SAME | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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