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
Yanchers Corporation is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The singular nature of these figures indicates a highly focused prosecution effort on a specific technical innovation. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is targeting a very specific niche within the medical device industry.
MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the only active matter, meaning the 1 pending office action is subject to their specific interpretation of patentability. Practitioners should prepare for the 1 distinct examiner by reviewing their typical response times and common rejection types. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be heavily influenced by the examiner's individual standards.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical review is confined to one specific administrative group. The 1 busiest examiner pending action is the only current obstacle to patent issuance for the company in this area. Resolving the 1 pending office action will require addressing the specific concerns of MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN within that single art unit. This focused workload allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single, high-priority application.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270105 | AUSCULTATORY SOUND ANALYSIS SYSTEM | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270105 | AUSCULTATORY SOUND ANALYSIS SYSTEM | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18270105 | AUSCULTATORY SOUND ANALYSIS SYSTEM | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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