Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apreo Health Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating different technical focuses for the company's current filings. The company is working with distinct examiners for these matters. Gabriel Victor Popescu is the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action.
This means each of the 2 pending actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. The involvement of the 2 distinct art units suggests that the innovations are technically diverse. Practitioners should be prepared to address the individual styles of the different examiners across the separate art units. This lack of concentration requires a case-specific strategy for each filing. Gabriel Victor Popescu handles 1 of the active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 1 | 63.4% | +30.9% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279977 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | — |
| 18553788 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19279977 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | — |
| 18553788 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19279977 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 18553788 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING PULMONARY DISEASE | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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