Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 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. currently maintains 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a concentration of technical subject matter within specific USPTO divisions. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, which means that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, preventing any single examiner from dominating the portfolio's current direction.
JASON M IP is the busiest examiner for the company, although he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners managing the 5 pending office actions, the company must navigate five separate sets of examiner preferences and interpretations. The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that while the examiners are diverse, the technical focus remains relatively narrow. This combination requires the applicant to maintain consistent arguments across different examiners who are operating within the same Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP, JASON M | 1 | 55.2% | +25.2% |
| STREGE, JOHN B | 1 | 87.0% | +13.8% |
| YOON, CHANEL J | 1 | 55.0% | +40.1% |
| MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 60.4% | +44.1% |
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.7% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18935201 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION WITH ULTRASOUND AND OPTICAL ILLUMINATION | IP, JASON M | 46d |
| 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 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18935201 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEMBRANE CHARACTERIZATION WITH ULTRASOUND AND OPTICAL ILLUMINATION | IP, JASON M | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18907033 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR OTITIS MEDIA DIAGNOSIS | STREGE, JOHN B | — | §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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