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
Not Impossible LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current state of prosecution is defined by 1 pending office action. This single active point of contact suggests a highly targeted approach to their current intellectual property filings. This focus indicates that the company is prioritizing a specific mechanical or medical device innovation at this time.
The examination of this portfolio is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration indicates that the company current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. The lack of multiple art units simplifies the administrative oversight required for these filings by centralizing the review process within one specialized division of the patent office, ensuring a unified technical evaluation.
MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS serves as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the company active applications. Consequently, the immediate future of the portfolio growth is tied to the specific examination results produced by this individual, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the total active workload for the company.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 31.6% | +63.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17652867 | NONINVASIVE DETECTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17652867 | NONINVASIVE DETECTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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