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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delsys Incorporated is currently prosecuting patent applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC, who is the busiest examiner for the company.
The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit. MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, which matches the total of 1 pending office action for the entire portfolio. This concentration suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are focused on a specific technical area. For a patent practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is highly centralized, with all current office communications and examiner interviews involving a single individual within 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496033 | BIOPOTENTIAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18496033 | BIOPOTENTIAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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