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
Newuro B V operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution profile includes 1 pending office action. This matter is being processed by 1 distinct examiner located in 1 distinct art unit. The focus of the portfolio is currently limited to this specific interaction, indicating a streamlined prosecution effort within the medical devices sector. The lack of broader distribution across multiple units indicates a highly specialized prosecution effort for the company's current filings.
RHODES, NORA W is designated as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner oversees the entirety of the company's active prosecution, legal representatives can concentrate their efforts on the specific requirements of this individual. The outcome of the company's current patenting efforts depends on the resolution of this single pending action under the supervision of this specific examiner and art unit. Practitioners should monitor the examiner's typical response patterns to ensure that the company's legal strategy remains aligned with the office's current expectations.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 54.1% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17187652 | FLEXIBLE BIPOLAR ELECTRODE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USE FOR TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS INCLUDING OBESITY AND CONSTIPATION | RHODES, NORA W | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17187652 | FLEXIBLE BIPOLAR ELECTRODE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USE FOR TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS INCLUDING OBESITY AND CONSTIPATION | RHODES, NORA W | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17187652 | FLEXIBLE BIPOLAR ELECTRODE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USE FOR TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS INCLUDING OBESITY AND CONSTIPATION | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2021 |
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