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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brisby Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner, Justin Xu, indicating a targeted approach to its current filings. With only 1 pending office action reported, the portfolio shows a highly streamlined prosecution path. This suggests that the company is prioritizing a single mechanical or medical innovation at this time rather than pursuing a broad array of applications.
Justin Xu acts as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. The concentration in a single art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or medical innovation. Because the total workload is limited to 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can focus their technical arguments on the specific standards of that unit. The fact that Justin Xu handles the only 1 pending office action means that the relationship with this examiner is the primary factor in the company's current patent success.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, RANDY W | 1 | 75.7% | +22.2% |
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381361 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18381361 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
| 18196034 | PET BED WITH VITAL SIGN MONITORING | XU, JUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18381361 | TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD | GIBSON, RANDY W | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18196034 | PET BED WITH VITAL SIGN MONITORING | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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