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
G Life maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently associated with this portfolio. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution effort. All current activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STICE, PAULA J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this specific examiner is the only individual currently evaluating the company's claims. The 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit together define the current regulatory environment for the company's medical and mechanical innovations.
For a patent practitioner, the presence of the pending office action means that the portfolio's immediate progress is tied to a single set of examiner communications. There are no other distinct examiners or distinct art units available within the data to provide a baseline for comparing allowance rates or prosecution timelines. The strategy for this portfolio must be specifically tailored to the requirements of STICE, PAULA J and the standards of the art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STICE, PAULA J | 1 | 82.0% | +21.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029714 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING PHOTOBIOMODULATION | STICE, PAULA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029714 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING PHOTOBIOMODULATION | STICE, PAULA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18029714 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR APPLYING PHOTOBIOMODULATION | STICE, PAULA J | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialG Life has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Paula J Stice has the most, with 1 of G Life's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.