Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neuroenhancement Lab LLC manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that while the technical subject matter is consistent enough to remain in one art unit, it is being reviewed from at least two different perspectives within that group. This structure allows the applicant to maintain a consistent technical focus while navigating the review styles of 2 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is REDDY, SUNITA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners handling the 2 pending office actions, the workload is split evenly. For the applicant, this means prosecution strategy must account for the specific tendencies of two different individuals operating within the same art unit framework. Practitioners should compare the feedback from both distinct examiners to identify any common themes or conflicting requirements within the single art unit. Understanding how each examiner applies the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area will be key to moving both matters forward.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.3% | +61.0% |
| BERHANU, ETSUB D | 1 | 65.3% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16987346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 16d overdue |
| 17888338 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CORONASOMNIA TO ENHANCE IMMUNITY AND IMMUNE RESPONSE | REDDY, SUNITA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17888338 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR REDUCING CORONASOMNIA TO ENHANCE IMMUNITY AND IMMUNE RESPONSE | REDDY, SUNITA | 3791 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
| 16987346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING BRAIN ACTIVITY TO AN IMAGING DEVICE | BERHANU, ETSUB D | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 06, 2020 |
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