Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cumulus Neuroscience Limited currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a high level of concentration in the company's current prosecution activity.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that all of the company's active matters are being reviewed by the same individual. For a practitioner, this provides a significant opportunity to streamline communications and develop a consistent negotiation strategy with the examiner.
The fact that there is 1 distinct art unit involved further simplifies the administrative and technical landscape for these 2 pending office actions. Because MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY is the only examiner, any progress made or precedents set in one case may directly influence the other. This centralized workload allows the company to focus its resources on a single point of contact within the USPTO to resolve the active matters.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 2 | 63.8% | +34.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573386 | SIZE-ADJUSTABLE EEG HEADSET | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 100d overdue |
| 18573347 | TECHNIQUE FOR HOLDING AN ELECTRODE | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573386 | SIZE-ADJUSTABLE EEG HEADSET | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18573347 | TECHNIQUE FOR HOLDING AN ELECTRODE | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCumulus Neuroscience Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Adam Zachary Minchella has the most, with 2 of Cumulus Neuroscience Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
