Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Realeve LLC is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which indicates a slight technical spread within the mechanical engineering field. This distribution ensures that the company's overall prosecution success is not tied to the specific tendencies of any single examiner.
Sircar, Alisha Jitendra is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. With 3 pending actions and three distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for one action. This distribution requires the company to manage three separate examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units. Practitioners should monitor the distinct approaches of these examiners to identify any variations in prosecution style across the different technical groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 86.9% | +7.2% |
| HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 1 | 49.2% | +39.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544126 | NEUROSTIMULATORS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591326 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Neurostimulation | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 30d |
| 18311541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING HEADACHE PAIN | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18591326 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Neurostimulation | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18544126 | NEUROSTIMULATORS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18311541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING HEADACHE PAIN | HODGE, LAURA NICOLE | 3792 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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