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
Kennedy Krieger Institute is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 active matter suggests a highly focused or specialized phase of patent acquisition for the institute at this time.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FRITH, SEAN A, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This concentrated distribution indicates that the current prosecution activity is limited to a single point of contact at the patent office. For practitioners, this means that the institute's immediate patent strategy relies entirely on the outcomes of this specific examiner's review.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope of the institute's current pending work is narrow. This allows for a streamlined approach to monitoring patent office trends, as the institute only needs to track the specific practices of FRITH, SEAN A. The lack of broader activity across multiple examiners or art units simplifies the management of the institute's current intellectual property pipeline.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRITH, SEAN A | 1 | 62.5% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714917 | QUANTIFICATION OF FLUID-TISSUE EXCHANGE USING PHASE ALTERNATE LABELING WITH NULL RECOVERY MRI | FRITH, SEAN A | 37d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714917 | QUANTIFICATION OF FLUID-TISSUE EXCHANGE USING PHASE ALTERNATE LABELING WITH NULL RECOVERY MRI | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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