Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northern Digital Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by distinct examiners. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units.
SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. With a one-to-one ratio for pending office actions and art units, the portfolio is distributed. Each pending matter is being handled by a unique examiner in a unique art unit.
The presence of 2 pending office actions across distinct examiners and art units indicates a decentralized prosecution for a small portfolio. Practitioners should treat each case as a separate track, as there is no overlap. The 1 action per examiner simplifies the individual workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 1 | 58.7% | +14.3% |
| SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 1 | 71.4% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058792 | TRACKING AND MANEUVERING USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 56d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058792 | TRACKING AND MANEUVERING USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 56d overdue |
| 18438018 | MARKER AND MARKERLESS TRACKING | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058792 | TRACKING AND MANEUVERING USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSOR | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18438018 | MARKER AND MARKERLESS TRACKING | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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