Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are dispersed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's neuroelectronic innovations bridge different technical classifications. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, which implies that each pending matter is being reviewed by a separate official, potentially leading to different timelines for resolution.
KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Although this is just a portion of the total pending actions, his role is central to the current prosecution landscape for the company. The distribution of the pending office actions among the distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires a coordinated legal strategy to ensure that arguments made in one unit do not conflict with those in another. This structure highlights the complexity of securing patents in the specialized field of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, where 3 pending office actions are currently active.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| TEHRANI, DANIEL | 1 | 59.7% | +42.9% |
| SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 1 | 16.7% | +16.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548473 | NEUROMODULATION DEVICE PROGRAMMING OPTIMIZING METHOD AND SYSTEM | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 13d |
| 18567741 | SYSTEM FOR NEUROMODULATION APPLICATIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 30d |
| 18566964 | ELECTRODE DEVICE | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548473 | NEUROMODULATION DEVICE PROGRAMMING OPTIMIZING METHOD AND SYSTEM | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 13d |
| 18567741 | SYSTEM FOR NEUROMODULATION APPLICATIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 30d |
| 18566964 | ELECTRODE DEVICE | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18567741 | SYSTEM FOR NEUROMODULATION APPLICATIONS | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18566964 | ELECTRODE DEVICE | TEHRANI, DANIEL | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18548473 | NEUROMODULATION DEVICE PROGRAMMING OPTIMIZING METHOD AND SYSTEM | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 3700 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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