Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Laxmi Therapeutic Devices Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 4 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current patent filings are technically homogeneous. Despite this concentration in a single art unit, the actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners.
This distribution means that each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, including busiest examiner CERIONI, DANIEL LEE, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. The use of 4 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit provides the company with multiple perspectives on how their medical device technology is perceived by different officials in the same technical field. This variety may lead to different prosecution outcomes even though the subject matter is focused enough to remain in one art unit. Practitioners should prepare for 4 separate examiner styles while addressing the specific requirements of the single art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 1 | 64.5% | +28.0% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
| MESSERSMITH, ERIC J | 1 | 69.4% | +25.0% |
| PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 1 | 23.3% | +15.4% |
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205598 | DERMAL SENSOR FOR DETERMINING ANALYTE CONCENTRATIONS | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 28d overdue |
| 18536176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF GLUCOSE DATA | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19205598 | DERMAL SENSOR FOR DETERMINING ANALYTE CONCENTRATIONS | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 28d overdue |
| 19258180 | DERMAL SENSOR INSERTION AND RETENTION | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 11d overdue |
| 19258209 | SMALL-SCALE ANALYTE SENSORS | MESSERSMITH, ERIC J | 8d overdue |
| 19288372 | DETECTION OF SIGNAL VARIATIONS DUE TO PRESSURE ON ANALYTE SENSOR | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 22d |
| 18536176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF GLUCOSE DATA | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288372 | DETECTION OF SIGNAL VARIATIONS DUE TO PRESSURE ON ANALYTE SENSOR | CERIONI, DANIEL LEE | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19258180 | DERMAL SENSOR INSERTION AND RETENTION | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19258209 | SMALL-SCALE ANALYTE SENSORS | MESSERSMITH, ERIC J | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19205598 | DERMAL SENSOR FOR DETERMINING ANALYTE CONCENTRATIONS | PADDA, ARI SINGH KANE | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 18536176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF GLUCOSE DATA | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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