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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neuroenhancement Lab LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently associated with this portfolio. This 1 action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated within a distinct art unit, representing a highly centralized prosecution status.
REDDY, SUNITA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Because this count matches the total pending workload, this examiner is the primary point of contact for all active matters. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific requirements and historical tendencies of this individual.
The concentration in a distinct art unit suggests that the pending intellectual property is technically cohesive. With only a distinct examiner involved, the practitioner can maintain a consistent prosecution strategy without the need to balance multiple examiner perspectives. This structure simplifies the administrative oversight required for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings in this 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.1% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16987346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16987346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 06, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialNeuroenhancement Lab LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Etsub D Berhanu has the most, with 1 of Neuroenhancement Lab LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
