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
Cardionxt Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, RHODES, NORA W, within a distinct art unit. This action is the only pending matter for the company. The concentration of the pending workload in this action suggests a highly focused prosecution phase for its medical device technology. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area requires precise technical documentation and clear claims of utility.
RHODES, NORA W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This matches the total of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. The distinct art unit involved shows that the current prosecution is focused on a single technical specialty. Since there is only the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit, the prosecution process is currently streamlined. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of the examiner handling this matter in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to ensure a smooth examination process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 54.1% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19305298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND APPLYING HIGH VOLTAGE THROUGH A MATRIX OF WIRES AND CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS | RHODES, NORA W | 18d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19305298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND APPLYING HIGH VOLTAGE THROUGH A MATRIX OF WIRES AND CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS | RHODES, NORA W | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19305298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AND APPLYING HIGH VOLTAGE THROUGH A MATRIX OF WIRES AND CONDUCTIVE ELEMENTS | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Aug 20, 2025 |
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