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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L. is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within a distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical scope for the company's current intellectual property filings. The prosecution is being overseen by a distinct examiner, providing a singular channel for communication with the patent office.
KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM is the busiest examiner for this company, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Since there is only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current prosecution efforts are entirely centered on this one case. The pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering represents the company's immediate priority at the patent office. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific preferences of KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM to efficiently move the 1 pending office action toward allowance. This concentrated activity in the distinct art unit allows for a highly specialized and focused legal approach for INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L. in the medical devices sector.
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 (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% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567731 | NEURAL INTERFACE WITH EDGE PROTECTED POROUS MATERIAL | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567731 | NEURAL INTERFACE WITH EDGE PROTECTED POROUS MATERIAL | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18567731 | NEURAL INTERFACE WITH EDGE PROTECTED POROUS MATERIAL | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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