Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Decision Sciences Medical Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A. The matter is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the technical requirements of the chemistry and materials field. This concentration of the 1 pending action within a single art unit reflects a focused technical scope for the company's current filing.
SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. As the company only has 1 pending office action, this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending action indicates that the prosecution is currently streamlined through a single administrative and technical path. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A to anticipate the trajectory of this matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740062 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING SEMI-RIGID ACOUSTIC COUPLING ARTICLES AND PACKAGING FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740062 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING SEMI-RIGID ACOUSTIC COUPLING ARTICLES AND PACKAGING FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740062 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING SEMI-RIGID ACOUSTIC COUPLING ARTICLES AND PACKAGING FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGING | SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A | 1742 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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