Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Emotiv Co. Ltd. is actively prosecuting 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current legal challenges are not concentrated under a single point of review at the patent office, even though the total number of pending actions is low. The involvement of 2 art units indicates that the underlying technology may have diverse applications or complex features that fall under different classification systems.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is MORALES, JON ERIC C, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners involved in the 2 pending actions, the workload is distributed. This variety in art units and examiners requires a strategy that accounts for different perspectives within the broader medical and mechanical engineering fields. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution of one application may not necessarily predict the path of the other, as each is subject to the unique standards and preferences of different examiners. The company's current status reflects a decentralized approach to its pending intellectual property, where each matter is isolated in its own administrative channel.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 1 | 16.1% | +67.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691855 | COGNITIVE MODEL-BASED COGNITIVE STATE EVALUTION SYSTEM BASED ON COGNITIVE MODEL FOR SUBSTITUTING COGNITIVE TEST TASK USING LEARNING-BASED USER-CUSTOMIZED COGNITIVE MODEL | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 29d |
| 18511934 | SERVICE APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DAILY BEHAVIORS OF PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691855 | COGNITIVE MODEL-BASED COGNITIVE STATE EVALUTION SYSTEM BASED ON COGNITIVE MODEL FOR SUBSTITUTING COGNITIVE TEST TASK USING LEARNING-BASED USER-CUSTOMIZED COGNITIVE MODEL | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 29d |
| 18511934 | SERVICE APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DAILY BEHAVIORS OF PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691855 | COGNITIVE MODEL-BASED COGNITIVE STATE EVALUTION SYSTEM BASED ON COGNITIVE MODEL FOR SUBSTITUTING COGNITIVE TEST TASK USING LEARNING-BASED USER-CUSTOMIZED COGNITIVE MODEL | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18511934 | SERVICE APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DAILY BEHAVIORS OF PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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