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
BIOLYST, LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company patent portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This indicates that there is one specific application or set of claims undergoing active review by the patent office at this time. This focused activity suggests a prioritized effort on a particular medical device or mechanical innovation.
The examination process is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the technology being patented is specialized and falls under the jurisdiction of a single technical division. The involvement of only one art unit simplifies the administrative oversight required for the company current filings, as all communications are centralized within one specialized group at the patent office.
HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. As the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual is the sole official reviewing the company active matters. The future of the company intellectual property in this sector is currently tied to the examination results produced by this one examiner, making their specific feedback a critical component of the prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 1 | 60.0% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17682660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN TREATING SENSORY IMPAIRMENT | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17682660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN TREATING SENSORY IMPAIRMENT | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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