Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beta Bionics Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These filings are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a spread of intellectual property across different technical classifications within the broader category.
John Philip Go is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions shows that each examiner is handling 1 matter, suggesting no concentration of workload under a single individual beyond the identified busiest examiner.
Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units involved may require different specialized arguments even within the same general technology area. With 2 pending office actions to address, the company maintains a divided prosecution pipeline. The involvement of John Philip Go as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action highlights the primary point of contact for 1 of the current outstanding USPTO matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GO, JOHN PHILIP | 1 | 34.1% | +43.1% |
| NG, HENRY | 1 | 64.1% | +52.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18296443 | AUTONOMOUS DOSE DETERMINATION FOR PEN DELIVERY OF MEDICAMENT | NG, HENRY | 29d |
| 18354009 | AMBULATORY MEDICAMENT PUMP WITH DISTRESS NOTIFICATIONS | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18296443 | AUTONOMOUS DOSE DETERMINATION FOR PEN DELIVERY OF MEDICAMENT | NG, HENRY | 29d |
| 18354009 | AMBULATORY MEDICAMENT PUMP WITH DISTRESS NOTIFICATIONS | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18354009 | AMBULATORY MEDICAMENT PUMP WITH DISTRESS NOTIFICATIONS | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18296443 | AUTONOMOUS DOSE DETERMINATION FOR PEN DELIVERY OF MEDICAMENT | NG, HENRY | 3741 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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