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
Meta Therapeutics Inc. has 1 pending office action located in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows a distribution of work where 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit oversee the current workload. This arrangement means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to 1 specific regulatory channel within the USPTO. Such a focused approach characterizes the protection of a core innovation within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner, HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since this 1 pending matter is the total workload currently pending for the company, the examiner's individual throughput and tendencies will define the short-term success of the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a technical scope that does not currently cross into multiple engineering disciplines. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be tuned to the specific requirements of 1 distinct examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377313 | SMARTWATCH-BASED BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND DISEASE PREDICTION METHOD USING THE SAME | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18377313 | SMARTWATCH-BASED BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM AND DISEASE PREDICTION METHOD USING THE SAME | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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