Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Precision Neuroscience Corporation is managing 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 4 distinct art units, which suggests that while the examiners are unique for each action, the technical subject matter is concentrated within a few specific groups.
XU, JUSTIN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 7 pending office actions. The distribution across 4 distinct art units for 7 actions indicates that the company's medical device filings are being reviewed by multiple teams, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examination cultures. The use of 7 distinct examiners for 7 actions highlights a lack of examiner-level concentration, which may lead to varying outcomes across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
| MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 1 | 55.9% | +20.4% |
| MORALES, JON ERIC C | 1 | 85.4% | +10.0% |
| WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 1 | 25.1% | +17.4% |
| MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 1 | 52.7% | +35.5% |
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18491328 | HIGH-BANDWIDTH SYSTEMS FOR CLOSED-LOOP DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18491441 | SECURE INTERFACES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 46d overdue |
| 19075143 | NEURAL INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATING WITH CLINICALLY UNRESPONSIVE PATIENTS | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 4d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18491441 | SECURE INTERFACES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 46d overdue |
| 19075143 | NEURAL INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATING WITH CLINICALLY UNRESPONSIVE PATIENTS | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 4d overdue |
| 18626897 | CONFORMAL ELECTRODE ARRAYS FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC RECORDING AND NEURAL STIMULATION WITHIN THE CEREBRAL VENTRICLES AND CEREBRAL VASCULATURE | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 8d |
| 18491328 | HIGH-BANDWIDTH SYSTEMS FOR CLOSED-LOOP DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | — |
| 18380918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL INTERFACES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | — |
| 17966359 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH-BANDWIDTH NEURAL INTERFACES | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 3 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075143 | NEURAL INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATING WITH CLINICALLY UNRESPONSIVE PATIENTS | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18626897 | CONFORMAL ELECTRODE ARRAYS FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC RECORDING AND NEURAL STIMULATION WITHIN THE CEREBRAL VENTRICLES AND CEREBRAL VASCULATURE | MUTCHLER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18491328 | HIGH-BANDWIDTH SYSTEMS FOR CLOSED-LOOP DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION | MORALES, JON ERIC C | 3796 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18491441 | SECURE INTERFACES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 3687 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18380918 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEURAL INTERFACES | MORONESO, JONATHAN DREW | 3791 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 17966359 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR HIGH-BANDWIDTH NEURAL INTERFACES | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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