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
Newronika S.p.A. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 2 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's intellectual property. Despite being in a single art unit, the actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing some variety in the review process.
The busiest examiner, ROANE, AARON F, is responsible for 1 pending action. Since there are multiple pending office actions and examiners, the workload is distributed, as the busiest examiner's count is 1. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having an outsized influence on the company's total pending portfolio, even though all work is confined to the same technical group.
Practitioners should recognize that while the technical field is narrow, the company must adapt to the different perspectives of the assigned examiners. The presence of the active office actions suggests a small but active prosecution pipeline. The alignment of actions with examiners ensures that each application receives a separate evaluation within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering space.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778354 | DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19069118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS | ROANE, AARON F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19069118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS | ROANE, AARON F | — | §101§102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18778354 | DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE FOR ADAPTIVE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
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