Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 1 of 2 (50%) have an AI response strategy ready
Neural Dynamics Technologies Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual at the patent office. This distribution can lead to varying timelines depending on the specific examiner assigned to each case.
The prosecution is further spread across 2 distinct art units. KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN is the busiest examiner associated with the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the 1 action assigned to KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN represents a portion of the active workload. This distribution across 2 examiners and 2 art units indicates a range of technical examinations for the company's current filings. Practitioners should note that the company must manage 2 separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 1 | 32.7% | +8.4% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593181 | INDIVIDUALLY CONTROLLED, DUAL-ROLE MICRO-ELECTRODES | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594052 | LOCAL AMPLIFICATION OF SENSED SIGNALS FROM A DBS ELECTRODE ARRAY | KERN, ASHLEIGH LAUREN | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | AI Ready | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18593181 | INDIVIDUALLY CONTROLLED, DUAL-ROLE MICRO-ELECTRODES | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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