Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Precision Healing, LLC focuses its patent portfolio on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. All of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technological focus for the company's current patent applications.
The prosecution is highly concentrated, as 1 distinct examiner is responsible for the entire workload. This means that every current case before the patent office is being reviewed by the same individual. This high level of concentration allows for a centralized prosecution strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple examiners.
The busiest examiner, CATTUNGAL, SANJAY, is handling 3 pending office actions. Because this examiner is the only one assigned to the current filings, the outcomes for the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area are currently dependent on this single individual. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding the specific patterns and requirements of this examiner.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3 | 83.5% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17564298 | MULTISPECTRAL SAMPLE ANALYSIS USING FLUORESCENCE SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369870 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING LIGHT SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 44d overdue |
| 19045608 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING A SMARTPHONE | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18369870 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING LIGHT SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 44d overdue |
| 19045608 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING A SMARTPHONE | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 30d |
| 17564298 | MULTISPECTRAL SAMPLE ANALYSIS USING FLUORESCENCE SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045608 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING A SMARTPHONE | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18369870 | WOUND CARE IMAGE ANALYSIS USING LIGHT SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 17564298 | MULTISPECTRAL SAMPLE ANALYSIS USING FLUORESCENCE SIGNATURES | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
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