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
Peoplebio Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LANE, DANIEL E, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, constituting the company's current active engagement with the patent office in this technology sector.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current prosecution success depends entirely on a single point of review. This 1 distinct art unit provides the specific regulatory environment for the application. Practitioners should note that the company's current profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is limited to this one matter, making the individual approach of LANE, DANIEL E central to their immediate patent goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.9% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880368 | COGNITIVE ABILITY TESTING SYSTEM | LANE, DANIEL E | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880368 | COGNITIVE ABILITY TESTING SYSTEM | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
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