Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Esaote S P A manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. LI, JOHN DENNY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Each case is being handled by a unique individual in a separate group.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across different areas suggests a lack of concentration in the company's current prosecution. LI, JOHN DENNY is one of the 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. Because each action is in a different one of the 2 distinct art units, the company must manage two separate examination processes. This structure ensures that the outcome of one case is unlikely to directly influence the other. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific tendencies of each assigned professional within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The 1 pending action handled by the busiest examiner represents the current limit of examiner concentration for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES FOR GENERATING FUSION IMAGES FROM REGISTERED IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 6d |
| 19473612 | System for acquiring images in intraoperative magnetic resonance | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES FOR GENERATING FUSION IMAGES FROM REGISTERED IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 6d |
| 19473612 | System for acquiring images in intraoperative magnetic resonance | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473612 | System for acquiring images in intraoperative magnetic resonance | LI, JOHN DENNY | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 18115660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES FOR GENERATING FUSION IMAGES FROM REGISTERED IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH DIFFERENT MODALITIES | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 2682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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