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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ebr Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular and focused path for the company's current medical device prosecution. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the current legal strategy is focused on a single administrative path within the patent office, which can lead to consistent feedback but also creates a single point of review.
The busiest examiner, MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner's single pending action constitutes the entire current office action workload for the portfolio, making this the primary focus of the company's immediate prosecution strategy. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company does not currently face the challenge of reconciling different examiner styles or conflicting requirements across multiple art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 1 | 49.5% | +34.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS ENDOCARDIAL STIMULATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICULAR SEPTAL WALL | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS ENDOCARDIAL STIMULATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICULAR SEPTAL WALL | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18796966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS ENDOCARDIAL STIMULATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICULAR SEPTAL WALL | MULLINS, JESSICA LYNN | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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