Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ceribell Inc. has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners. The prosecution effort is distributed across 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's technology is being reviewed by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are split among the 5 distinct examiners. This concentration with MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY handling 2 cases suggests that this examiner has a relative impact on the current pending portfolio. The use of 4 distinct art units further diversifies the technical review process for the 6 pending office actions. Practitioners should coordinate across the 4 art units to ensure consistency while addressing the 5 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 2 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 2 | 64.1% | +33.9% |
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| TU, AURELIE H | 1 | 56.4% | +60.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17203464 | CONNECTION QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR EEG ELECTRODE ARRAYS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 81d overdue |
| 17083078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SONIFIED BRAIN SIGNALS | TU, AURELIE H | 79d overdue |
| 18787979 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRODE PLACEMENT AND TRACKING | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 56d overdue |
| 18153986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF DELIRIUM AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 51d overdue |
| 17836969 | ADJUSTABLE GEOMETRY WEARABLE ELECTRODES | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 28d |
| 19098805 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEIZURE DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17203464 | CONNECTION QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR EEG ELECTRODE ARRAYS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 81d overdue |
| 17083078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SONIFIED BRAIN SIGNALS | TU, AURELIE H | 79d overdue |
| 18787979 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRODE PLACEMENT AND TRACKING | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 56d overdue |
| 18153986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF DELIRIUM AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 51d overdue |
| 17836969 | ADJUSTABLE GEOMETRY WEARABLE ELECTRODES | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 28d |
| 19098805 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEIZURE DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19098805 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEIZURE DETECTION | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3792 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18787979 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRODE PLACEMENT AND TRACKING | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18153986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF DELIRIUM AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17836969 | ADJUSTABLE GEOMETRY WEARABLE ELECTRODES | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
| 17203464 | CONNECTION QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR EEG ELECTRODE ARRAYS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 81d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2021 |
| 17083078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SONIFIED BRAIN SIGNALS | TU, AURELIE H | 3791 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Oct 28, 2020 |
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