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
Articulate Labs Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of the entire active portfolio under 1 distinct examiner suggests a very narrow technical focus for the company's current filings. This allows practitioners to tailor their arguments specifically to the preferences and examination style of DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK. The lack of multiple active cases simplifies the coordination required to maintain consistency across the portfolio.
Operating within a single art unit provides a stable environment for patent prosecution. The company can expect the application of a uniform set of examination standards and prior art interpretations. This focused approach reduces the complexity of managing the company's intellectual property interests at the patent office.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917029 | ORTHOTIC SUPPORT AND STIMULUS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917029 | ORTHOTIC SUPPORT AND STIMULUS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917029 | ORTHOTIC SUPPORT AND STIMULUS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArticulate Labs Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sean Patrick Dougherty has the most, with 1 of Articulate Labs Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
