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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zverse Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is handled by a single distinct examiner across a sole distinct art unit. LEDERER, SARAH B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action assigned.
The prosecution for Zverse Inc. is currently limited to active matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. With a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, the applicant's experience is shaped by the specific requirements of LEDERER, SARAH B. This concentration suggests a very specific technical focus for the pending matters, as they are not distributed across multiple examiners or art units. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of LEDERER, SARAH B, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative data points. The singular nature of the art unit involvement also means that the prosecution is subject to the specific internal policies of that unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17238588 | FACE SHIELD ASSEMBLY | LEDERER, SARAH B | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17238588 | FACE SHIELD ASSEMBLY | LEDERER, SARAH B | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
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