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
Cerebrotech Medical Systems Inc. is engaged in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. Prosecution is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused and singular path for its current patent applications. This structure suggests that the company is currently pursuing a specific medical device innovation that falls under a single technical classification at the patent office.
BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. Because the company has only 1 pending office action, the entirety of its current prosecution effort is subject to the review of this one examiner within the specified art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from this examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide alternative perspectives from the patent office. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the company's immediate patenting success is highly dependent on the outcome of this single prosecution thread.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 1 | 51.6% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18338496 | DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF SPATIALLY VARYING FLUID LEVELS USING MAGNETIC SIGNALS | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18338496 | DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF SPATIALLY VARYING FLUID LEVELS USING MAGNETIC SIGNALS | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
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