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
The Guy P Curtis And Frances L Curtis Trust maintains a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio shows 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow prosecution footprint at this time. This concentration indicates that the trust is currently pursuing a specific technical advancement rather than a broad array of diverse inventions. The focused nature of this prosecution suggests that the intellectual property strategy is currently centered on a specific set of claims.
MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS is identified as the busiest examiner for the trust, with a pending office action. Since there is only a pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner manages all active prosecution for the entity. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units suggests that the current prosecution strategy is focused on a specific technological niche. For the practitioner, this means that the relationship with this examiner is a central factor in the current prosecution phase, as there are no other active matters to provide comparative data points. Success in this matter will require a thorough understanding of the examiner's specific concerns and the technical standards of the assigned art unit.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 31.6% | +63.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18336987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING OXIMETER MEASUREMENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jun 17, 2023 |
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