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
Mata Edu Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners but are all located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is SAINT-VIL, EDDY, who holds 1 pending action.
The concentration of the pending matters within 1 art unit suggests a very specific technical focus for the current portfolio. However, because these actions are split among 3 distinct examiners, the prosecution strategy must account for the different individual perspectives within that single technical group. With 3 pending actions total, the portfolio benefits from a unified technical environment, even as it navigates the distinct requirements of the assigned examiners. This structure allows for a centralized technical argument while requiring attention to the specific habits of 1 examiner and their colleagues. The current workload is entirely contained within this single art unit, simplifying technical coordination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 2 (67%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 1 | 43.1% | +29.3% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
| UTAMA, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.2% | +29.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887482 | Method and System for Generating Solution Explanations for Learning Problems | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 15d overdue |
| 18924193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TREATMENT PROBLEM PROVIDED TO USER | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 4d overdue |
| 18887252 | Method and System for Generating Learning Problems | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 60d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18887482 | Method and System for Generating Solution Explanations for Learning Problems | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 15d overdue |
| 18924193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TREATMENT PROBLEM PROVIDED TO USER | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 4d overdue |
| 18887252 | Method and System for Generating Learning Problems | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 60d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TREATMENT PROBLEM PROVIDED TO USER | SAINT-VIL, EDDY | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18887252 | Method and System for Generating Learning Problems | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18887482 | Method and System for Generating Solution Explanations for Learning Problems | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
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