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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emotiv Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated and specific area of current patent prosecution for the company. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically aligned within a single specialized group at the USPTO.
KIM, EUN HWA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio currently involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused on a single point of contact. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate intellectual property goals are tied to this specific mechanical or medical device application. Practitioners should prepare for a focused negotiation with the 1 distinct examiner, as the resolution of the 1 pending office action is the current priority for the portfolio. The outcome in this 1 distinct art unit will set the tone for future filings in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, EUN HWA | 1 | 72.3% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625638 | WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING BIOSIGNALS | KIM, EUN HWA | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18625638 | WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING BIOSIGNALS | KIM, EUN HWA | 3794 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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