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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polar Electro Oy has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and a corresponding number of distinct art units. HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio.
With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Each examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. The use of multiple distinct art units for these actions suggests that the company's filings in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering cover a variety of sub-specialties.
Practitioners will need to coordinate across multiple distinct art units and examiners. This lack of concentration means that the outcome of one pending office action may not necessarily predict the outcome of the others, as they are being handled by different personnel in different units. Each of the pending office actions requires a unique approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 41.4% | +52.1% |
| BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 1 | 42.7% | +30.3% |
| HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 1 | 45.6% | +35.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16877451 | System for Measuring Stress Level | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 5d overdue |
| 17856961 | METHOD FOR MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF PERIODIC MOTION | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16877451 | System for Measuring Stress Level | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 5d overdue |
| 18419380 | VISCERAL BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 26d |
| 17856961 | METHOD FOR MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF PERIODIC MOTION | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18419380 | VISCERAL BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 17856961 | METHOD FOR MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF PERIODIC MOTION | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3715 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2022 |
| 16877451 | System for Measuring Stress Level | HOUGH, JESSANDRA F | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2020 |
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