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
New York University (Nyu) is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by a single distinct examiner, BERTRAM, ERIC D, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The portfolio is currently limited to a single distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the pending patent application. This centralization simplifies the administrative burden of tracking the application's progress through the patent office.
The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that BERTRAM, ERIC D is the sole examiner responsible for the current pending workload. This examiner's perspective on the medical device and mechanical engineering claims will be the deciding factor for the application's success. With only a single distinct examiner and art unit, the university can focus its legal strategy on the specific preferences and prior art interpretations of a single individual. This prosecution profile suggests a very targeted research and development focus within this specific technical sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTRAM, ERIC D | 1 | 81.2% | +12.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569107 | VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569107 | VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569107 | VAGAL NERVE STIMULATION | BERTRAM, ERIC D | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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