Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Otonexus Medical Technologies Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 5 examiners across 3 art units, creating multiple examiner perspectives within a smaller set of technical groupings.
BRUTUS, JOEL F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A portfolio review should therefore emphasize art-unit patterns and application-specific examiner positions rather than relying on one examiner relationship.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.9% | +17.7% |
| STREGE, JOHN B | 1 | 87.0% | +13.9% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.5% | +39.3% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.7% | +43.5% |
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.5% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907033 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR OTITIS MEDIA DIAGNOSIS | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 56d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922750 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 35d overdue |
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 56d |
| 18907033 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR OTITIS MEDIA DIAGNOSIS | STREGE, JOHN B | — |
| 18358762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY | YOON, CHANEL J | — |
| 18065103 | OTOSCOPE SEAL DEVICES AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922750 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18907033 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR OTITIS MEDIA DIAGNOSIS | STREGE, JOHN B | 2669 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18358762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY | YOON, CHANEL J | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18065103 | OTOSCOPE SEAL DEVICES AND METHODS | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17880013 | ACOUSTIC OTOSCOPE | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOtonexus Medical Technologies Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Joel F Brutus has the most, with 1 of Otonexus Medical Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
