Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dixi Neurolab Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, indicating a distributed prosecution workload. Interestingly, the data shows only 1 distinct art unit, which means that both examiners are working within the same technical division of the patent office. This allows for a consistent understanding of the art unit's general policies while still needing to tailor arguments to two different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the company is MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This confirms that the 2 pending office actions are shared between the two examiners, with each managing a single matter. For practitioners, this situation is unique because the 2 distinct examiners operate under the same administrative umbrella. This centralized art unit environment simplifies the technical landscape, even though the 1 busiest examiner pending action covers only half of the active portfolio.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 1 | 68.8% | +40.2% |
| ALLEN, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.2% | +61.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17820620 | Injectrode with Multiple Electrical Sensors | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 43d |
| 17656483 | Apparatus with Double Balloon for Treating Trigeminal Neuralgia | ALLEN, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17820620 | Injectrode with Multiple Electrical Sensors | MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17656483 | Apparatus with Double Balloon for Treating Trigeminal Neuralgia | ALLEN, ROBERT F | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
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