Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dandelion Medical Devices Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently active within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is divided across distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed in a separate environment. WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This structure suggests that the company's current patent office activity is highly decentralized despite its small size.
With only a small number of pending office actions total, the portfolio shows a very narrow window of active examination. The ratio of pending actions to distinct examiners means that no single examiner or art unit holds a majority of the pending workload for the company. Consequently, the prosecution of each application must be managed as an independent effort. The presence of 2 distinct examiners within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area ensures that the company receives multiple perspectives on its technical disclosures during the current examination cycle.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 68.0% | +28.7% |
| COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 1 | 46.1% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 18d overdue |
| 19335800 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19335800 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18617157 | PATIENT-WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING A SUBPULSE OF A PATIENT AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
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