Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ISUS Intellectual Property PLLC has managed 731 career applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The firm currently has 3 pending office actions and a resolved allowance rate pct of 89.9.
Prosecution at the firm involves an avg office actions per allowance of 3.69. This 3.69 figure provides a basis for practitioners to anticipate the number of examiner interactions required in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The 89.9 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the proportion of cases that reached allowance relative to the 731 career applications. The 3 pending office actions represent the current cases awaiting a USPTO response.
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 | 6 (86%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 2 | 41.6% | +46.3% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| TRA, TUYEN Q | 1 | 85.6% | +9.2% |
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 35.7% | +75.0% |
| THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 1 | — | — |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 77.6% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830057 | SLIT LAMP WITH BACKGROUND ILLUMINATOR | TRA, TUYEN Q | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514313 | MULTIFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS | PATEL, AREN | 67d overdue |
| 19022672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING LIGHT IN OCULAR AND PERIOCULAR AREAS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 18648431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LASER HAIR TREATMENT | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| 18211679 | COSMETIC SKIN REJUVENATION | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| 17676125 | COSMETIC SKIN REJUVINATION | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Lumenis | 3 |
| Hanita Lenses | 2 |
| POLLOGEN LTD. | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022672 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING LIGHT IN OCULAR AND PERIOCULAR AREAS | LUMENIS LTD. | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18830057 | SLIT LAMP WITH BACKGROUND ILLUMINATOR | LUMENIS LTD. | TRA, TUYEN Q | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 | |
| 18648431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LASER HAIR TREATMENT | LUMENIS LTD. | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2024 |
| 18398921 | MULTIFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS | Hanita Lenses Ltd. | THOMAS, NATALIE NICOLE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18514313 | MULTIFOCAL INTRAOCULAR LENS | Hanita Lenses Ltd. | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18211679 | COSMETIC SKIN REJUVENATION | Pollogen Ltd. | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 | |
| 17676125 | COSMETIC SKIN REJUVINATION | Pollogen Ltd. | EKRAMI, YASAMIN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2022 |
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