Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Regenerative Bioelectronics Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the portfolio's current legal challenges are split between different technical specialties or administrative groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA, is managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided, with the other action assigned to a different examiner. This split across 2 distinct examiners requires the practitioner to manage two separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Each track may require a different tone or level of technical detail based on the specific examiner's feedback.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending office actions may involve different statutory requirements or examination guidelines. Practitioners must coordinate responses that respect the nuances of each of the 2 distinct art units. Success in this portfolio depends on addressing the specific concerns of both examiners, including the 1 action held by WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's overall progress is not entirely dependent on a single person's docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 1 | 75.2% | +21.0% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 68.0% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 79d overdue |
| 18225130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 31d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 79d overdue |
| 18225130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18225130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2023 |
| 18225129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NERVE STIMULATION | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2023 |
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