Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gbrain Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, though they are contained within a distinct art unit. This structure indicates that while the technical subject matter is concentrated in a unit, the company must manage relationships with different examiners simultaneously. This can lead to different examination styles even within the same technical group.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WELCH, WILLOW GRACE, who is handling 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending workload for the company. The distribution of the pending action to the busiest examiner shows how the workload is split across the distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. Practitioners must coordinate responses to ensure consistency across both pending matters, despite the involvement of different examiners. The focus remains within the distinct art unit, which may provide technical consistency in the prior art being cited against the applications. The company currently manages 1 pending action with the busiest examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| WALKER, OLIVIA | 1 | 35.7% | +75.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18166119 | SYRINGE-INJECTION-TYPE BRAIN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT AND STIMULATION STRUCTURE, AND SYRINGE INJECTION METHOD THEREFOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18166119 | SYRINGE-INJECTION-TYPE BRAIN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT AND STIMULATION STRUCTURE, AND SYRINGE INJECTION METHOD THEREFOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
| 17778234 | SYRINGE-INJECTION-TYPE BRAIN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT AND STIMULATION STRUCTURE, AND SYRINGE INJECTION METHOD THEREFOR | WALKER, OLIVIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18166119 | SYRINGE-INJECTION-TYPE BRAIN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT AND STIMULATION STRUCTURE, AND SYRINGE INJECTION METHOD THEREFOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 17778234 | SYRINGE-INJECTION-TYPE BRAIN SIGNAL MEASUREMENT AND STIMULATION STRUCTURE, AND SYRINGE INJECTION METHOD THEREFOR | WALKER, OLIVIA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGbrain Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Willow Grace Welch has the most, with 1 of Gbrain Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
