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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nirsense Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. Matthew Eric Ogles is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. The workload is split evenly between the examiners, with each handling one of the pending matters. This distribution requires the company to manage two different individual perspectives simultaneously.
Since both examiners are in the same art unit, the company can expect a consistent technical framework for its applications, even while navigating the individual styles of the two different examiners. This concentration in 1 art unit for both pending matters allows for a more unified prosecution strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from Matthew Eric Ogles while ensuring that arguments remain compatible with the broader standards of the single department involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +57.0% |
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | — |
| 18656229 | NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18656229 | NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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