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
Makous Research LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is conducted within 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of current USPTO activity. The focus remains entirely within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area under a single examiner's review. This concentration allows for a highly specific prosecution strategy but relies entirely on the interpretation of 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a narrow technical niche. This allows the company to develop a deep understanding of the specific requirements of the assigned examiner. However, it also means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the company's current success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +20.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18657444 | Methods, Systems, Devices and Components for the Treatment of Stroke in a Patient with Interferential Cranial Electrical Stimulation | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18657444 | Methods, Systems, Devices and Components for the Treatment of Stroke in a Patient with Interferential Cranial Electrical Stimulation | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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