Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
AliveCor Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the 7 pending actions is being handled by a different examiner, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents one of the 7 total pending actions currently active for the portfolio. Since no single examiner is handling more than one action, the 7 distinct examiners each play an equal role in the company's current prosecution status. The 1 pending office action assigned to JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A is the only one for that examiner.
The 7 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's medical device technology touches on several different mechanical or engineering classifications. This requires a prosecution strategy that can manage the 7 active matters across three different specialized groups within the patent office while dealing with 7 different individual examiners. Practitioners must coordinate across these 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 2 (22%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | 1 | 83.7% | +15.4% |
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 86.9% | +7.2% |
| SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | 1 | — | — |
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 1 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 1 | 28.5% | +26.9% |
| KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 1 | 32.7% | +8.4% |
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 1 | 9.1% | +2.8% |
| BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 1 | 63.3% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF QT INTERVAL ANALYSIS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17553414 | TWELVE-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM USING ELECTRODES COUPLED BY A SINGLE CABLE | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 81d overdue |
| 17955336 | MOBILE QT ANALYSIS INTEGRATION | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 17d overdue |
| 19069054 | DIGITAL STETHOSCOPE | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18407346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ANALYTE MEASUREMENT ANALYSIS | SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | — |
| 18527094 | MACHINE LEARNING HEALTH ANALYSIS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
| 18161641 | SIX LEAD ECG DEVICE WITH A REDUCED FORM FACTOR | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17955336 | MOBILE QT ANALYSIS INTEGRATION | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 17d overdue |
| 19069054 | DIGITAL STETHOSCOPE | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — |
| 18527094 | MACHINE LEARNING HEALTH ANALYSIS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | — |
| 18161641 | SIX LEAD ECG DEVICE WITH A REDUCED FORM FACTOR | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — |
| 17539164 | MULTI-LEAD ELECTRODE PLACEMENT ON A WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DEVICE | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19069054 | DIGITAL STETHOSCOPE | JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18806620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF QT INTERVAL ANALYSIS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18407346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ANALYTE MEASUREMENT ANALYSIS | SHELTON, SETH CAPRIANO-UMA | — | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18527094 | MACHINE LEARNING HEALTH ANALYSIS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18161641 | SIX LEAD ECG DEVICE WITH A REDUCED FORM FACTOR | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17955336 | MOBILE QT ANALYSIS INTEGRATION | MPAMUGO, CHINYERE | 3685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17714909 | BEDSIDE COMMODE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
| 17553414 | TWELVE-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAM USING ELECTRODES COUPLED BY A SINGLE CABLE | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
| 17539164 | MULTI-LEAD ELECTRODE PLACEMENT ON A WEARABLE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DEVICE | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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