Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Autism Care, LLC operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution effort where all current activity is localized under one individual in a specific department at the USPTO.
BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's workload and the total pending actions confirms that there is no distribution of work across multiple examiners. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's medical device technology is classified within a narrow technical field.
Practitioners should note that the entire active portfolio is subject to the discretion of 1 distinct examiner. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will significantly impact the company's standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit, the examination process is highly focused on the standards of that specific unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18582131 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE OF A USER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 37d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18582131 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE OF A USER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 37d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18582131 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE OF A USER | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
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