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
Codealgo Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, THOMAS, ERIC M. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the technical specialization of the company's current patent filing. This 1 to 1 relationship between the pending action and the art unit indicates a highly focused examination path.
THOMAS, ERIC M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner's review is the sole factor in the company's current prosecution pipeline. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending action suggests a streamlined examination process for this medical and mechanical matter. Practitioners should analyze the past decisions of THOMAS, ERIC M to better understand the likely outcome of this pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, ERIC M | 1 | 69.9% | +14.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INTERFACES | THOMAS, ERIC M | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INTERFACES | THOMAS, ERIC M | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INTERFACES | THOMAS, ERIC M | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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