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
Fisher Wallace Laboratories Inc. maintains a focused presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specialized focus within the medical device sector. This concentrated activity allows for a direct prosecution path for the company's mechanical engineering innovations.
As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The use of 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action indicates a streamlined interaction with the patent office. For a practitioner, this means the company's current intellectual property goals are tied to a singular examiner relationship, which simplifies the management of the active docket but increases the impact of individual examiner discretion.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 58.3% | +61.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624083 | TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION (tACS) | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 49d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18624083 | TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION (tACS) | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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