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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emteq Limited manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution environment. The company's current patent strategy is concentrated on the 1 pending office action, which limits the complexity of its office interactions. The 1 distinct art unit ensures that the technical review remains within a specific administrative framework.
EPPERT, LUCY CLARE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending workload. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific style of EPPERT, LUCY CLARE. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution does not face varying interpretations from different technical divisions. Achieving a favorable outcome requires a precise understanding of the examiner's previous actions and the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit. Success with EPPERT, LUCY CLARE is the primary goal for the current portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 60.0% | +31.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE OF CONTACT OF EMG SENSORS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 31d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE OF CONTACT OF EMG SENSORS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18048663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE OF CONTACT OF EMG SENSORS | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
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