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
Foresite Healthcare LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's active prosecution is being conducted across different technical groups and by different individuals within the patent office, which may reflect the varied nature of the medical technologies involved.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BRUTUS, JOEL F, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the workload is distributed such that each examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. This prevents a concentration of the prosecution under a single reviewer in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector at this time, as the 2 pending office actions are not consolidated.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.8% | +17.7% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BED EXIT AND FALL DETECTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 147d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BED EXIT AND FALL DETECTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 147d overdue |
| 17381002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND MONITORING RESPIRATION, CARDIAC FUNCTION, AND OTHER HEALTH DATA FROM PHYSICAL INPUT | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18230603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BED EXIT AND FALL DETECTION | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 17381002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND MONITORING RESPIRATION, CARDIAC FUNCTION, AND OTHER HEALTH DATA FROM PHYSICAL INPUT | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2021 |
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