Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Imago Systems Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being reviewed within 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's current communications-related filings are being handled independently by different specialized groups and individuals at the USPTO, with no overlap in the current pending matters.
HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 of the active cases. This distribution means that the company's prosecution results are currently subject to the independent reviews of 2 different examiners, rather than being concentrated under 1 person.
The use of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated under different sets of specialized criteria within the communications field. For practitioners, this requires a dual-track prosecution strategy where each of the 2 pending office actions is handled according to the specific preferences of its examiner. The lack of concentration in examiners or art units means that there is no single point of contact for the portfolio's current activity.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 1 | 70.2% | +43.1% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18469414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVE VISUALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LUMEN STRUCTURES AND FLOW THEREWITHIN | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18451656 | System and Method for the Visualization and Characterization of Objects in Images | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 22d overdue |
| 18469414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVE VISUALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LUMEN STRUCTURES AND FLOW THEREWITHIN | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18469414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVE VISUALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LUMEN STRUCTURES AND FLOW THEREWITHIN | HELCO, NICHOLAS JOHN | 2667 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18451656 | System and Method for the Visualization and Characterization of Objects in Images | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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