Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 2 | 85.1% | +15.2% |
| CHNG, JOY POH AI | 1 | 60.6% | +19.0% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 1 | 67.3% | +21.8% |
| STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 1 | 51.3% | +27.0% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207303 | TREATMENT PARADIGMS FOR NERVE STIMULATION | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 2d overdue |
| 18396958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 6d |
| 19258809 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SLEEP | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 15d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17744557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 15d |
| 18754919 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 16d |
| 19230501 | Medical Devices for Treating Medical Conditions | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207303 | TREATMENT PARADIGMS FOR NERVE STIMULATION | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 2d overdue |
| 18396958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 6d |
| 19258809 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SLEEP | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 15d |
| 17744557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 15d |
| 18754919 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 16d |
| 19230501 | Medical Devices for Treating Medical Conditions | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — |
| 18092392 | VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | — |
| 17981371 | NON-INVASIVE NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT DISORDERS | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 4 |
| 3796 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19258809 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING SLEEP | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19230501 | Medical Devices for Treating Medical Conditions | CHNG, JOY POH AI | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19207303 | TREATMENT PARADIGMS FOR NERVE STIMULATION | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18754919 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | EDWARDS, PHILIP CHARLES | 3792 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18396958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18092392 | VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION THERAPY | D ABREU, MICHAEL JOSEPH | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2023 |
| 17981371 | NON-INVASIVE NERVE STIMULATION TO TREAT DISORDERS | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17744557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING NERVE STIMULATION | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
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