Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nice Recovery Systems LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's activity is currently limited to this single engineering case, suggesting a highly focused prosecution strategy. Having only 1 pending office action allows the company to concentrate its efforts on the specific technical and legal arguments needed to overcome the examiner's objections.
BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner to move the application forward. Because the prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific technical nuances required to satisfy the examiner's requirements without the need to manage multiple conflicting prosecution timelines.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.7% | +31.5% |
| BALLER, KELSEY E | 1 | 62.4% | +59.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17957676 | VARIABLE TEMPERATURE MICROPERCUSSION THERAPY DEVICE | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3d overdue |
| 18221237 | COOLING THERAPY APPARATUS | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18221237 | COOLING THERAPY APPARATUS | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17957676 | VARIABLE TEMPERATURE MICROPERCUSSION THERAPY DEVICE | BALLER, KELSEY E | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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