Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Berendo Scientific LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite having multiple active matters, the prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner and within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the pending applications are closely related in technical scope or have been funneled to the same administrative group for review.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ANDERSON, MEGAN M, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because a single examiner handles all pending work, the company's prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback and requirements of this individual. Practitioners should look for consistency in the active matters, as ANDERSON, MEGAN M provides the sole point of contact for the company's current mechanical engineering and medical device filings.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 2 | 74.9% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345374 | BREATHING EXERCISE APPARATUSES | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345341 | BREATHING EXERCISE METHODS | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 22d |
| 18345374 | BREATHING EXERCISE APPARATUSES | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18345374 | BREATHING EXERCISE APPARATUSES | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 3784 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18345341 | BREATHING EXERCISE METHODS | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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