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
Noptrack has 2 pending office actions. These are in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and are located in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent applications are technically similar and are being reviewed by the same specialized group at the patent office.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. JOHN M ROYSTON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The 2 pending actions are split between the 2 examiners, with each managing one case. Although the cases are in the same art unit, the company must address the individual review styles of 2 different examiners. This requires a prosecution approach that maintains technical consistency across the 2 matters while adapting to the specific feedback provided by each of the 2 examiners involved. Practitioners should monitor both examiners to ensure a unified strategy for the company's mechanical innovations.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1 | 77.8% | +17.0% |
| BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 1 | 20.0% | +63.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565808 | DETECTION OF A CHEMICAL SPECIES IN THE SWEAT OF A SUBJECT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 23d overdue |
| 18874036 | MICROFLUIDIC ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE FOR MEASURING A VOLUME FLOW RATE | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565808 | DETECTION OF A CHEMICAL SPECIES IN THE SWEAT OF A SUBJECT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 23d overdue |
| 18874036 | MICROFLUIDIC ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE FOR MEASURING A VOLUME FLOW RATE | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874036 | MICROFLUIDIC ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE FOR MEASURING A VOLUME FLOW RATE | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18565808 | DETECTION OF A CHEMICAL SPECIES IN THE SWEAT OF A SUBJECT | BALAJI, KAVYA SHOBANA | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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