Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Caption Health Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diversified prosecution landscape. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property in the Communications sector spans multiple specialized sub-fields.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BEE, ANDREW W., who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, the workload is split between BEE, ANDREW W. and the other of the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement requires the company to manage different examiner styles and art unit expectations simultaneously.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions highlights a lack of examiner overlap. Practitioners must tailor their arguments to the specific requirements of each unit. The data shows that no single examiner dominates the current prosecution cycle for Caption Health Inc.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEE, ANDREW W. | 1 | 73.2% | +31.8% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 50.9% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594805 | ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR LUNG DIAGNOSTICS | BEE, ANDREW W. | 35d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594805 | ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR LUNG DIAGNOSTICS | BEE, ANDREW W. | 35d overdue |
| 18420004 | ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT INDICATOR | CWERN, JONATHAN | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594805 | ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR LUNG DIAGNOSTICS | BEE, ANDREW W. | 2677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18420004 | ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT INDICATOR | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
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