Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acoustiic Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners. This configuration shows a high level of examiner diversity despite the company's focus on a specific technical field. Practitioners must be prepared to address different sets of examiner preferences and interpretations of patentability.
The busiest examiner, BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. All current matters are contained within 1 distinct art unit. This means that while the administrative oversight is centralized, the actual review process is decentralized across multiple individuals. For the company, this implies that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the path to allowance may vary significantly depending on which examiner is reviewing a particular application.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 1 | 77.2% | +25.9% |
| DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 1 | 53.4% | +37.2% |
| JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 1 | 68.6% | +25.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17737377 | EVENT-BASED ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 23d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17737377 | EVENT-BASED ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 23d overdue |
| 18741324 | GENERATING DATA SETS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ULTRASOUND IMAGING | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 46d |
| 18740337 | DETECTING ULTRASOUND BEAMS USING ULTRASOUND IMAGING | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18741324 | GENERATING DATA SETS FOR MACHINE LEARNING USING ULTRASOUND IMAGING | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18740337 | DETECTING ULTRASOUND BEAMS USING ULTRASOUND IMAGING | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 17737377 | EVENT-BASED ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
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