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
Cumulus Neuroscience Limited holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This level of activity suggests a focused effort on securing intellectual property for their neuroscience-related devices, with one application currently undergoing active review.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current filings are situated within a specific technical niche. Focusing on 1 distinct art unit allows the company to tailor its prosecution strategy to the specific requirements and tendencies of that administrative group, potentially leading to more efficient outcomes.
MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. The progress of the portfolio is directly linked to the review and decisions made by this single examiner, making their individual examination history a critical factor for the company's legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 1 | 64.1% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573386 | SIZE-ADJUSTABLE EEG HEADSET | MINCHELLA, ADAM ZACHARY | 100d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 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 |
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