Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Herlev And Gentofte Hospital currently has 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, NICHOLAS JOHN HELCO. The matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular administrative and technical classification for the hospital's current filing.
NICHOLAS JOHN HELCO is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution of this communications technology is highly centralized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action depends entirely on the interactions between the applicant and this single examiner within the designated art unit.
Practitioners should note that the lack of multiple pending actions prevents any comparison of examiner behavior or art unit standards within this portfolio. The prosecution strategy is focused on the 1 pending office action handled by NICHOLAS JOHN HELCO. This concentration means that the hospital's current presence in the communications patent landscape is defined by this single active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 1 | 67.3% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247329 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF FREE INTRA-ABDOMINAL AIR | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18247329 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF FREE INTRA-ABDOMINAL AIR | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHerlev And Gentofte Hospital has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicholas John Helco has the most, with 1 of Herlev And Gentofte Hospital's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.