Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Prevent Biometrics Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This activity is confined to the distinct art units identified in the data, showing a concentrated focus for the company's current patent applications. By having its pending office action in a single area, the company avoids the complexity of managing disparate technical requirements across multiple USPTO divisions.
The portfolio is currently assigned to the distinct examiners listed, including MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO. This examiner is the busiest examiner for the company and maintains a busiest examiner pending count of 1. Because the busiest examiner pending count matches the total number of pending office actions, the company's entire active prosecution is handled by this single individual. This creates a direct relationship between the company's patent success and the specific preferences of MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO.
The presence of the specified examiner and art unit indicates a streamlined prosecution path. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements of this examiner rather than balancing multiple prosecution styles. The current data shows that the company's immediate intellectual property goals are centered on resolving the pending action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 1 | 15.4% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17731553 | PROXIMITY SENSOR TECHNIQUES | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17731553 | PROXIMITY SENSOR TECHNIQUES | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17731553 | PROXIMITY SENSOR TECHNIQUES | MONTGOMERY, MELISSA JO | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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