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
Lifeline Medical LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current patent prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow scope of active examination. The busiest examiner, PATEL, NIKETA I, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
Given that the total pending office actions and the busiest examiner pending count are the same, PATEL, NIKETA I oversees every active office action for the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's immediate legal results depend on a specific reviewer's perspective.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NIKETA I | 1 | 41.1% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING ONE OR MORE ADDICTIVE ACTIVITIES OF AN ADDICT | PATEL, NIKETA I | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18503837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING ONE OR MORE ADDICTIVE ACTIVITIES OF AN ADDICT | PATEL, NIKETA I | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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