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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Modulight Corporation currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. The profile indicates a focus for the current patent prosecution activities. This allows for a specific and detailed response to the examiner's office action without the complexity of managing multiple cases.
EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the pending workload. The outcome of the current prosecution cycle is dependent on the specific interactions with this examiner in the designated art unit. Practitioners should review the examiner's history to better understand their approach to medical device applications. With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is centralized and focused on a technical dialogue. This ratio of actions to examiners simplifies the overall management of the patent portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 1 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165645 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE LIGHT FRACTIONATION IN PHOTOTHERAPY | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 66d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165645 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE LIGHT FRACTIONATION IN PHOTOTHERAPY | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18165645 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE LIGHT FRACTIONATION IN PHOTOTHERAPY | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 3792 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
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