Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emocog Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual in a different administrative group, suggesting a diverse range of technical subject matter within the portfolio. The use of 3 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions means each matter is handled by a different administrative group.
CHOI, DAVID is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed with one action per examiner. The use of 3 distinct art units means the applicant must adapt to 3 different sets of examination standards and examiner preferences. This structure, involving 3 distinct examiners, ensures that the outcome of one pending office action is unlikely to be influenced by the others.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, DAVID | 1 | 18.8% | +27.9% |
| MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 1 | 53.4% | +51.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18434984 | IMAGE-BASED DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 69d |
| 19044981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FOR MAINTAINING COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND IMPROVING DECLINE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION | CHOI, DAVID | — |
| 18435015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING DEMENTIA THROUGH STORY-BASED QUESTION-AND-ANSWER TYPE ASSESSMENT AND STORY-BASED VOICE EXTRACTION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18434984 | IMAGE-BASED DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 69d |
| 19044981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FOR MAINTAINING COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND IMPROVING DECLINE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION | CHOI, DAVID | — |
| 18435015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING DEMENTIA THROUGH STORY-BASED QUESTION-AND-ANSWER TYPE ASSESSMENT AND STORY-BASED VOICE EXTRACTION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19044981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FOR MAINTAINING COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND IMPROVING DECLINE IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION | CHOI, DAVID | 3685 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18435015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING DEMENTIA THROUGH STORY-BASED QUESTION-AND-ANSWER TYPE ASSESSMENT AND STORY-BASED VOICE EXTRACTION | MARSH, OWEN LEWIS | 3796 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18434984 | IMAGE-BASED DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 3686 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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