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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Centre For Addiction And Mental Health is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The single pending matter reflects a concentrated prosecution effort in the medical engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LANE, DANIEL E, who handles the 1 pending office action. This 1 matter represents the entirety of the organization's current pending prosecution. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the organization's patent strategy is currently subject to the review of a single individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering unit, as there are no other pending matters to provide a broader view of the office's current stance on the organization's technology. The success of this portfolio depends on navigating the specific examination style of LANE, DANIEL E.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.8% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING ACTIVE-ESCAPE BIAS IN MAMMALS | LANE, DANIEL E | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING ACTIVE-ESCAPE BIAS IN MAMMALS | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCentre For Addiction And Mental Health has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel E Lane has the most, with 1 of Centre For Addiction And Mental Health's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.