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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Applied Minds, LLC currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning the workload is spread across different individuals. This distribution provides a variety of examiner viewpoints for the company's active applications.
All 3 pending office actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that while the 3 distinct examiners are different, the administrative and technical oversight is unified within a single group. WASEL, MOHAMED A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical environment for prosecution. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the standards of this specific unit while addressing the individual requirements of examiners like WASEL, MOHAMED A. This data reflects the current state of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio.
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%) |
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASEL, MOHAMED A | 1 | 89.8% | +11.6% |
| HSIEH, PING Y | 1 | 79.1% | +15.4% |
| MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 58.2% | +25.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049265 | SECURE MEETING SPACE WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION LEVELS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASEL, MOHAMED A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19049265 | SECURE MEETING SPACE WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION LEVELS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASEL, MOHAMED A | — |
| 18973453 | COLOR NIGHT VISION CAMERAS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS THEREOF | HSIEH, PING Y | — |
| 18515173 | ELECTRONICALLY ADJUSTABLE JOINT, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049265 | SECURE MEETING SPACE WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION LEVELS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WASEL, MOHAMED A | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18973453 | COLOR NIGHT VISION CAMERAS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS THEREOF | HSIEH, PING Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18515173 | ELECTRONICALLY ADJUSTABLE JOINT, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 3715 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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