Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ectosense NV is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, showing a clear concentration of the workload. HELENE CATHERINE BROWN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions. This means that two-thirds of the company's current pending matters are assigned to a single examiner.
The 3 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within the medical device field. While HELENE CATHERINE BROWN handles 2 pending actions, the remaining action is assigned to another examiner. This profile suggests that the company's prosecution strategy should focus heavily on the preferences of HELENE CATHERINE BROWN, who manages the majority of the 3 pending office actions.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions with HELENE CATHERINE BROWN allows for a more focused prosecution strategy for most of the portfolio. However, the presence of 2 distinct art units for only 3 actions means that technical precedents may not be easily shared across all cases. Practitioners should prioritize their interactions with HELENE CATHERINE BROWN while remaining adaptable to the requirements of the other examiner and the 2 art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 2 | 51.6% | +30.2% |
| D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 1 | 67.3% | +21.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019696 | Apparatus, System and Method for Diagnosing Sleep | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| 18016907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SLEEP-DISTURBING EVENTS FROM A SIGNAL INDICATIVE OF A PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE OF AN INDIVIDUAL | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19019696 | Apparatus, System and Method for Diagnosing Sleep | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| 18016907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SLEEP-DISTURBING EVENTS FROM A SIGNAL INDICATIVE OF A PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE OF AN INDIVIDUAL | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | — |
| 18012009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19019696 | Apparatus, System and Method for Diagnosing Sleep | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18016907 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SLEEP-DISTURBING EVENTS FROM A SIGNAL INDICATIVE OF A PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE OF AN INDIVIDUAL | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18012009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL TONE | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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