Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Biosig Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These applications are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that the company's current intellectual property is being evaluated from multiple perspectives. This arrangement can lead to varied prosecution experiences depending on each examiner's specific focus.
The workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units. SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is 1 of the 2 pending office actions in the portfolio. Navigating 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for the different technical standards and examination cultures of each group. The outcomes of these 2 pending office actions will be critical for the company's efforts to secure patent protection for its medical device innovations.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.1% |
| SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 1 | 83.8% | +8.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459728 | Pacing Artifact Removal | SULTANA, DILARA | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459715 | ELIMINATION OF NEGATIVE COMPONENT OF UNIPOLAR ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM AND SIGNALING OF SAME | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 168d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18459728 | Pacing Artifact Removal | SULTANA, DILARA | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18459728 | Pacing Artifact Removal | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18459715 | ELIMINATION OF NEGATIVE COMPONENT OF UNIPOLAR ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM AND SIGNALING OF SAME | SCHAETZLE, KENNEDY | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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