Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imaginear Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES. Furthermore, the matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of consolidation in the company's prosecution efforts. This arrangement suggests that all current filings are being evaluated by the same individual in the same technical group.
HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These 2 actions account for the total of 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. For practitioners, this concentration under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit may allow for a more unified prosecution strategy. The data highlights a portfolio with a single point of contact for all pending matters. Having 2 pending office actions with the same examiner in 1 distinct art unit provides an opportunity to address multiple cases through a single channel of communication.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 2 | 51.8% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813579 | Systems and Methods for Capture and Use of Local Elements in Gameplay | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19175119 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURE AND USE OF LOCAL ELEMENTS IN GAMEPLAY | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 54d |
| 18813579 | Systems and Methods for Capture and Use of Local Elements in Gameplay | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175119 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURE AND USE OF LOCAL ELEMENTS IN GAMEPLAY | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 3715 | §102 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18813579 | Systems and Methods for Capture and Use of Local Elements in Gameplay | HENRY, THOMAS HAYNES | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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