Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Physcade Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among distinct examiners. Both examiners are operating within a distinct art unit, showing a concentrated technical focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner is STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and multiple examiners, the workload is divided among the individuals assigned to the cases.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 53.3% | +43.1% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING ACTIVATION WAVES TO GUIDE TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM DISORDERS | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19225824 | GENERATOR AND CATHETER FOR TISSUE ABLATION | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 44d overdue |
| 19169730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING ACTIVATION WAVES TO GUIDE TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM DISORDERS | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225824 | GENERATOR AND CATHETER FOR TISSUE ABLATION | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19169730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING ACTIVATION WAVES TO GUIDE TREATMENT OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM DISORDERS | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
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