Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lumos Holdings US Acquisition Co. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. This total matches the number of 2 distinct examiners and spans 2 distinct art units. FIX, THOMAS S is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated under different technical frameworks. With 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner, the company's current patent activity is spread across multiple points of review despite the small number of active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| NGUYEN, NYCA T | 1 | 67.5% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521780 | AUTOMATED MONITORING OF EXERCISE DEVICES | FIX, THOMAS S | 25d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521780 | AUTOMATED MONITORING OF EXERCISE DEVICES | FIX, THOMAS S | 25d overdue |
| 18124500 | TRANSFER OF EXERCISE DATA FROM AN EXERCISE DEVICE | NGUYEN, NYCA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521780 | AUTOMATED MONITORING OF EXERCISE DEVICES | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18124500 | TRANSFER OF EXERCISE DATA FROM AN EXERCISE DEVICE | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 3784 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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