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
BIT&BRAIN TECHNOLOGIES, S.L. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution effort in a specific technical field. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a lean or highly targeted phase of patent acquisition.
The portfolio's current activity involves 1 distinct examiner, TOTH, KAREN E. As the busiest examiner, TOTH, KAREN E is responsible for 1 pending office action, which accounts for the entire pending workload of the company. This concentration means the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on the feedback and requirements of a single examiner.
For practitioners, the alignment of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering shows a lack of diversity in examiner perspectives at this time. The company's immediate results in the patent office are tied to the active matter currently under review by TOTH, KAREN E.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOTH, KAREN E | 1 | 46.4% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714910 | AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714910 | AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | TOTH, KAREN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714910 | AN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | TOTH, KAREN E | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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