Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brius Technologies Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the 3 pending office actions are not all classified within the same technical group. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a diversified prosecution approach. Practitioners must manage the specific expectations of the different individuals, including BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE, across the art units.
The fact that there are 3 pending office actions but only 2 distinct art units implies that some actions share a similar technical classification. This overlap in art units might provide some consistency in the technical standards applied to the workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | 1 | 58.7% | +37.5% |
| HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 1 | 41.4% | +50.7% |
| GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 1 | 19.3% | +11.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997586 | DENTAL APPLIANCES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 22d overdue |
| 18251762 | DEVICES FOR TREATING TEETH AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 12d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997586 | DENTAL APPLIANCES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 22d overdue |
| 18251762 | DEVICES FOR TREATING TEETH AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 12d |
| 19236043 | DENTAL APPLIANCES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236043 | DENTAL APPLIANCES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE | — | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18251762 | DEVICES FOR TREATING TEETH AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | HUYNH, COURTNEY NGUYEN | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 17997586 | DENTAL APPLIANCES AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURING | GIRI, PURSOTTAM | 2186 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
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