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
BLACKROCK MICROSYSTEMS, LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus. The 1 pending office action represents the total current prosecution workload for the company.
Because MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC is the only examiner involved, the outcome of the pending application depends on his specific review. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims are being evaluated within a single specialized group at the USPTO. This allows the company to focus its resources on the 1 busiest examiner pending action without the need to coordinate across multiple technical divisions. Practitioners can tailor their arguments to the specific examination patterns of the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761369 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG) ELECTRODE ARRAYS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761369 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG) ELECTRODE ARRAYS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17761369 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG) ELECTRODE ARRAYS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
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