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
Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation Inc. is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This singular active matter represents the university's current focus in its intellectual property strategy. The presence of a university foundation in the medical and mechanical sector suggests a specialized application of academic research.
The prosecution environment for this portfolio is highly centralized, with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved. This indicates that the university's active patent claims are being reviewed by a single official within a specialized division of the USPTO. This narrow focus means that the university's immediate success is tied to the technical standards and precedents of that 1 distinct art unit.
DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner for the university's active filings, their individual perspective on the claims will determine the immediate outcome of the prosecution. Practitioners should analyze the specific examination tendencies of this official to move the 1 pending office action toward allowance in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.7% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629156 | MAPPING RESTING-STATE EEG ONTO MOTOR IMAGERY EEG SIGNALS VIA DATA CLUSTERING FOR REDUCED CLASSIFIER TRAINING REQUIREMENTS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629156 | MAPPING RESTING-STATE EEG ONTO MOTOR IMAGERY EEG SIGNALS VIA DATA CLUSTERING FOR REDUCED CLASSIFIER TRAINING REQUIREMENTS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18629156 | MAPPING RESTING-STATE EEG ONTO MOTOR IMAGERY EEG SIGNALS VIA DATA CLUSTERING FOR REDUCED CLASSIFIER TRAINING REQUIREMENTS | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
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