Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Insightec Ltd. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current pending portfolio. Each examiner is tasked with reviewing an application, which ensures that the workload is not concentrated in a single office.
The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units. While the examiners are all different, the concentration in 2 art units indicates that the pending office actions fall into specific technical categories. ZHANG, LEI is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since every examiner in this set handles 1 pending action, the workload is spread evenly, requiring the company to manage multiple examiner relationships within a limited number of art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| LI, JOHN DENNY | 1 | 63.2% | +48.4% |
| KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | 1 | 85.7% | +100.0% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 65.0% | +33.4% |
| TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 1 | 64.7% | +29.6% |
| NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 1 | 64.2% | +28.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849347 | MONITORING TISSUE PERMEABILITY DURING ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | ZHANG, LEI | 73d overdue |
| 18822462 | CONTROL OF EXOGENOUS AGENT CHARACTERISTICS IN MICROBUBBLE-MEDIATED ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18252133 | MULTIPARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849347 | MONITORING TISSUE PERMEABILITY DURING ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | ZHANG, LEI | 73d overdue |
| 17778518 | ADAPTIVE SINGLE-BUBBLE-BASED AUTOFOCUSING AND POWER ADJUSTMENT IN ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 20d |
| 18822462 | CONTROL OF EXOGENOUS AGENT CHARACTERISTICS IN MICROBUBBLE-MEDIATED ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | LI, JOHN DENNY | — |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — |
| 18252133 | MULTIPARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | DAVIS, AMELIE R | — |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 2 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849347 | MONITORING TISSUE PERMEABILITY DURING ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18822462 | CONTROL OF EXOGENOUS AGENT CHARACTERISTICS IN MICROBUBBLE-MEDIATED ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | LI, JOHN DENNY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2024 |
| 18572954 | DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT MONITORING BASED ON BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION | KOVACH, KARA NICOLE | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18252133 | MULTIPARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18176978 | Systems and Methods for Selective, Targeted Tissue Disruption | TALTY, MARIA CHRISTINA | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17778518 | ADAPTIVE SINGLE-BUBBLE-BASED AUTOFOCUSING AND POWER ADJUSTMENT IN ULTRASOUND PROCEDURES | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
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