Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apollo Neuroscience, Inc. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently manages 3 pending office actions, which represents the total volume of its active patent prosecution. This count of 3 pending office actions suggests an ongoing commitment to developing its intellectual property portfolio.
The prosecution effort is organized under 1 distinct art unit and involves 2 distinct examiners. Having 2 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions indicates that the workload is distributed, even though the technical focus remains within 1 distinct art unit. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners allows for more than 1 perspective on the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications.
MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS is the busiest examiner, with a busiest examiner pending count of 2. This means MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS handles 2 of the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that the examination style of MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS will have a larger impact on the portfolio than the other 1 distinct examiner involved.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 2 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
| LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 1 | 82.1% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18091044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SLEEP MAINTENANCE | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17533880 | COORDINATED SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE TRANSDUCERS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18091044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SLEEP MAINTENANCE | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 20d |
| 17873619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS VIBRATION TO SYNERGIZE WITH OR AUGMENT A TREATMENT MODALITY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| 17533880 | COORDINATED SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE TRANSDUCERS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18091044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SLEEP MAINTENANCE | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17873619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS VIBRATION TO SYNERGIZE WITH OR AUGMENT A TREATMENT MODALITY | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
| 17533880 | COORDINATED SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE TRANSDUCERS | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
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