Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lf Bolt Corp. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet all current prosecution activity is located within 1 distinct art unit. TEHRANI, DANIEL is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action.
The use of 3 distinct examiners for the pending office actions shows no examiner overlap, meaning each case is being handled by a different individual. However, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is technically consistent across the company's current filings. This combination of examiner variety and art unit concentration requires practitioners to tailor their arguments to different perspectives while adhering to the specific standards of the art unit.
TEHRANI, DANIEL handles 1 pending office action, representing one third of the current portfolio. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for a pending office action, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. This distribution minimizes the risk associated with any one examiner's specific hurdles but also prevents the company from leveraging a single relationship across multiple cases in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEHRANI, DANIEL | 1 | 59.7% | +42.9% |
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
| STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 1 | 51.3% | +27.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879747 | OPTICAL SENSING TO DETECT MUSCLE DENSITY IN A WEARABLE ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
| 18878640 | THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT | LUAN, SCOTT | — |
| 18870381 | ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUSES | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879747 | OPTICAL SENSING TO DETECT MUSCLE DENSITY IN A WEARABLE ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — |
| 18878640 | THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT | LUAN, SCOTT | — |
| 18870381 | ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUSES | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879747 | OPTICAL SENSING TO DETECT MUSCLE DENSITY IN A WEARABLE ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS | TEHRANI, DANIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18878640 | THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATMENT | LUAN, SCOTT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18870381 | ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION APPARATUSES | STEINBERG, AMANDA L | 3792 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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