Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Neuros Medical Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The concentration of work under 1 distinct examiner indicates a specific prosecution path for the current application.
The portfolio is currently active in 1 distinct art unit. Because this matter represents the entire current workload, the prosecution experience is centralized. Practitioners can expect a consistent examination style as the same individual, SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE, handles the current volume. This alignment of 1 distinct art unit with the 1 distinct examiner simplifies the monitoring process for this specific portfolio. The presence of the current art unit ensures that the legal strategy does not need to account for different procedural requirements in other divisions.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 1 | 77.8% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658949 | NERVE CUFF ELECTRODE FOR NEUROMODULATION IN LARGE HUMAN NERVE TRUNKS | SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658949 | NERVE CUFF ELECTRODE FOR NEUROMODULATION IN LARGE HUMAN NERVE TRUNKS | SCHLUETER, MARY GRACE | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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