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
Bayland Scientific Inc. manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, indicating that the organization's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in a single specialized group. This structure simplifies the administrative burden of tracking multiple deadlines and varying examiner preferences across the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MOSS, JAMES R, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is the only one reviewing the current pending matter, their individual assessment of patentability will be the primary influence on the case's progress. Legal counsel should research this examiner's history in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field to understand their typical approach to technical disclosures. Preparing a response that aligns with the examiner's preferred evidence and claim structures can improve the efficiency of the prosecution process.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSS, JAMES R | 1 | 51.1% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17820184 | METHOD APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF WEARABLE SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE VITAL HEALTH SENSORS AND DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS | MOSS, JAMES R | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
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