Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Linus Health Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows a moderate level of diversity in the administrative units reviewing the company's applications, suggesting that the technical scope of the filings may span different sub-fields within the medical device sector. The presence of 3 pending office actions indicates an active and ongoing prosecution effort.
The busiest examiner, OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC, holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 action. This even distribution across the 2 distinct art units suggests a balanced prosecution workload. For practitioners, this means that the strategy for the 3 pending office actions must be adapted to the individual preferences of 3 different examiners. While the workload is spread out, the involvement of 2 distinct art units requires the company to remain mindful of the different procedural nuances that may exist between these administrative groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +57.0% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.4% | +44.1% |
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SPEECH HEARING OPTIMIZATION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 4d overdue |
| 18897839 | STYLUS DERIVED METRICS TO DETECT CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
| 18741239 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREMOR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18627964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SPEECH HEARING OPTIMIZATION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 4d overdue |
| 18897839 | STYLUS DERIVED METRICS TO DETECT CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
| 18741239 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREMOR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18897839 | STYLUS DERIVED METRICS TO DETECT CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18741239 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREMOR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — | §101§102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18627964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SPEECH HEARING OPTIMIZATION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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