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
AI Mnemonic Limited is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a very targeted prosecution effort. The portfolio is also confined to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent application. This streamlined structure allows for a direct approach to securing intellectual property rights. The data indicates that the company's current USPTO activity is highly concentrated.
The busiest examiner for the company is HODGE, LAURA NICOLE, who is managing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the USPTO. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate patent prospects are concentrated in one place. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements and feedback provided by this single examiner in their specialized art unit. The outcome of this pending action will be the primary determinant of the company's current patenting success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND RECOGNIZING HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND MEASURING ATTENTION LEVEL | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 60d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND RECOGNIZING HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND MEASURING ATTENTION LEVEL | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18328500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND RECOGNIZING HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND MEASURING ATTENTION LEVEL | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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