Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phagenesis Limited has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and a matching number of distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit, suggesting a broad technical range for the company's current filings.
KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is split evenly, with no single examiner handling more than one matter. For the practitioner, this decentralized structure means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific tendencies of each individual examiner and art unit involved. The lack of concentration suggests that the outcomes of these actions are likely to be independent of one another, requiring a multi-faceted approach to portfolio management.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 1 | 77.9% | +23.9% |
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 1 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253519 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 70d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253519 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 70d |
| 18463061 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | — |
| 17658035 | PHARYNGEAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18463061 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | KAHELIN, MICHAEL WILLIAM | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18253519 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR TREATING DISEASE USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 17658035 | PHARYNGEAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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