Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neurive Co. Ltd. is currently addressing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of three different examiners, all 3 pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a high degree of technical consistency in the company's current filings. The use of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions ensures that the workload is spread across multiple individuals within that 1 distinct art unit.
AYA ZIAD BAKKAR is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 case. This structure requires the company to manage 3 separate examiner relationships while operating within the confines of 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should coordinate their approach across the 3 distinct examiners to maintain a unified strategy for all pending office actions, given their shared technical classification in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | 1 | 63.3% | +43.2% |
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712446 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMPLEX STIMULATION AND COMPLEX STIMULATION DEVICE | SAHAND, SANA | 11d overdue |
| 18859291 | METHOD FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO VAGUS NERVE BY REFLECTING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT, AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION DEVICE | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — |
| 18857656 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPLICATION METHOD AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPLICATION APPARATUS FOR PNEUMOGASTRIC NERVES REFLECTING DEGREE OF SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712446 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMPLEX STIMULATION AND COMPLEX STIMULATION DEVICE | SAHAND, SANA | 11d overdue |
| 18859291 | METHOD FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO VAGUS NERVE BY REFLECTING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT, AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION DEVICE | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859291 | METHOD FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO VAGUS NERVE BY REFLECTING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT, AND VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION DEVICE | BAKKAR, AYA ZIAD | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18857656 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPLICATION METHOD AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION APPLICATION APPARATUS FOR PNEUMOGASTRIC NERVES REFLECTING DEGREE OF SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18712446 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMPLEX STIMULATION AND COMPLEX STIMULATION DEVICE | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
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