Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Frontact Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
The prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units, suggesting significant technical variety within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings. BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 5 pending office actions are distributed across the 5 distinct examiners.
The use of 4 distinct art units for the current workload shows that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio is being examined across many specialized groups at the patent office. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage five separate prosecution dialogues simultaneously.
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) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 1 | 63.3% | +43.2% |
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 53.3% | +43.1% |
| WEARE, MEREDITH H | 1 | 50.4% | +31.7% |
| BALLER, KELSEY E | 1 | 62.4% | +59.9% |
| MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN | 1 | 12.4% | +25.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741929 | BRAIN WAVE AND CELL ACTIVITY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON LIGHT STIMULATION, AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVEMENT, PREVENTION, OR INCREASE IN BRAIN FUNCTION | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 55d |
| 18690010 | BRAIN WAVE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18690149 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING PROGRAM | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18254527 | PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT | BALLER, KELSEY E | — |
| 17997961 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL COGNITIVE ABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM | MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741929 | BRAIN WAVE AND CELL ACTIVITY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON LIGHT STIMULATION, AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVEMENT, PREVENTION, OR INCREASE IN BRAIN FUNCTION | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 55d |
| 18690010 | BRAIN WAVE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | — |
| 18690149 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING PROGRAM | WEARE, MEREDITH H | — |
| 18254527 | PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT | BALLER, KELSEY E | — |
| 17997961 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL COGNITIVE ABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM | MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18741929 | BRAIN WAVE AND CELL ACTIVITY CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON LIGHT STIMULATION, AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVEMENT, PREVENTION, OR INCREASE IN BRAIN FUNCTION | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18690010 | BRAIN WAVE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18690149 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION RECORDING PROGRAM | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18254527 | PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING DEVICE FOR ASSISTING MOVEMENT OF PART OF INTEREST OF SUBJECT | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 17997961 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL COGNITIVE ABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM | MARMOR II, CHARLES ALAN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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