Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Deepqure Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 of these actions are being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of organizational focus at the USPTO. However, each action is assigned to a different person, with 3 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL, handles 1 pending office action. Because all 3 distinct examiners are located in the same 1 art unit, they likely share common supervisory oversight and internal practices. This structure may offer more consistency in prosecution than if the 3 pending office actions were spread across multiple art units, despite the involvement of 3 different individuals. For the practitioner, managing the distinct examiners within the art unit requires balancing individual examiner preferences with the unified technical standards of that specific unit. The 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering represent a concentrated but individually diverse set of challenges for the company's legal team.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | 1 | 73.0% | +20.4% |
| LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1 | 38.6% | +14.3% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 52.9% | +20.8% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921690 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR NERVE DENERVATION OR MODULATION IN BODY | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3d overdue |
| 17921717 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 34d |
| 19034080 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING OR CONTROLLING NERVES IN BODY | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034080 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR BLOCKING OR CONTROLLING NERVES IN BODY | FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 17921690 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS FOR NERVE DENERVATION OR MODULATION IN BODY | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17921717 | ELECTRODE APPARATUS | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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