Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medi Whale Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Communications technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus for the portfolio. The busiest examiner for the company is GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This concentration means that the company's immediate patent outcomes in this sector depend on the evaluations of a single individual. Practitioners should monitor the specific tendencies of this examiner within the designated art unit to anticipate potential hurdles. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are not yet diversified across different technical classifications. This narrow focus allows for a specific legal strategy tailored to the assigned examiner's historical preferences. By focusing on the procedural history of the active examiner, the company can better prepare for the specific types of rejections or requirements that are common in this particular area of Communications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 1 | 77.1% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18089767 | DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANCE METHOD AND DEVICE | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18089767 | DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANCE METHOD AND DEVICE | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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