Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neurent Medical Limited currently has 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 7 actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, which indicates some overlap in examiner assignments. The portfolio is concentrated in 2 distinct art units, showing a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications. This concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests that the 7 pending office actions fall into a limited number of specialized categories.
Thomas Anthony Giuliani is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions. This concentration with this examiner represents a portion of the 7 total pending actions. Because the work is limited to 2 distinct art units, the company likely faces consistent administrative standards across its pending applications. The involvement of 5 distinct examiners for 7 actions means that while some examiners handle multiple cases, the majority of the 7 pending office actions are subject to varied individual scrutiny. Practitioners should account for the 2 pending office actions assigned to Thomas Anthony Giuliani when developing a prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 2 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
| SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 2 | 52.0% | +55.3% |
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 1 | 38.6% | +14.3% |
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 54.1% | +25.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEADACHE DISORDERS | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17495150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 43d overdue |
| 19184676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL NEUROMODULATION | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 12d |
| 17495144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 12d |
| 18030346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 14d |
| 18816456 | DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC SINO-NASAL TREATMENT | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17495150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 43d overdue |
| 18023675 | DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC SINO-NASAL TREATMENT | RHODES, NORA W | 15d overdue |
| 19184676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL NEUROMODULATION | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 12d |
| 17495144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 12d |
| 18030346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 14d |
| 18816456 | DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC SINO-NASAL TREATMENT | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 5 |
| 3798 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19184676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL NEUROMODULATION | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18825146 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HEADACHE DISORDERS | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18816456 | DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC SINO-NASAL TREATMENT | LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN | 3794 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18030346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | GIULIANI, THOMAS ANTHONY | 3794 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18023675 | DEVICE FOR THERAPEUTIC SINO-NASAL TREATMENT | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 17495144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
| 17495150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC NASAL TREATMENT | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 3798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2021 |
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