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
B-SECUR Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This prosecution activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow administrative footprint for the current pending matters. ASHLEIGH LAUREN KERN serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned.
Because the 1 pending office action is managed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the individual tendencies of ASHLEIGH LAUREN KERN. The concentration in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests that future filings may continue to encounter this specific art unit. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's history within this technology area to anticipate potential hurdles. The presence of a concentrated pending load simplifies communication but increases the impact of the examiner's discretion on the portfolio's progress. Successfully navigating the matter is the primary focus for the company's current patent efforts.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 1 | 32.7% | +8.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681487 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC ELECTRODE TESTING | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
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