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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neuwave Medical Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's medical device filings are concentrated within a specific technical division, suggesting a unified administrative focus. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
GOOD, SAMANTHA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is shared among the assigned officials. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the current activity level for the busiest examiner. The distinct examiners confirm that the prosecution is distributed across multiple individuals at the office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 1 | 68.3% | +10.9% |
| BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 1 | 72.9% | +12.1% |
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 46.3% | +49.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417479 | SIMULATED ABLATION TREATMENT PLANS FOR ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 44d overdue |
| 18382676 | ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 12d |
| 18113991 | TEMPERATURE REGULATING DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417479 | SIMULATED ABLATION TREATMENT PLANS FOR ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 44d overdue |
| 18382676 | ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 12d |
| 18113991 | TEMPERATURE REGULATING DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18417479 | SIMULATED ABLATION TREATMENT PLANS FOR ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18382676 | ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | BORSCH, NICHOLAS S | 3794 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18113991 | TEMPERATURE REGULATING DEVICES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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