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
Hygear Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The lack of broader distribution across multiple examiners suggests a specific point of engagement with the patent office for the current portfolio. All activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which limits the variety of technical review environments the company faces.
The busiest examiner identified is GANESAN, SUNDHARA M, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner handles the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the prosecution outcome for the company is currently dependent on the specific review style of this 1 individual. This concentration simplifies the tracking of examiner behavior but increases the impact of the 1 distinct examiner on the overall portfolio status. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with the workload of GANESAN, SUNDHARA M highlights a direct path forward in the current prosecution cycle. By focusing on 1 distinct art unit, the company can concentrate its legal resources on the technical standards specific to that environment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 1 | 70.3% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046145 | SUSPENSION TRAINING SYSTEMS WITH MACHINE LEARNING CAPABILITIES | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18046145 | SUSPENSION TRAINING SYSTEMS WITH MACHINE LEARNING CAPABILITIES | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18046145 | SUSPENSION TRAINING SYSTEMS WITH MACHINE LEARNING CAPABILITIES | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 3784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
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