Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the institute's current filings. The company is working with 4 distinct examiners, so each of the 4 pending actions is being handled by a different official.
BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 action is one of the 4 total pending actions currently active. The concentration of all 4 actions in 1 art unit, despite having 4 distinct examiners, indicates that the institute's innovations are being evaluated by a single specialized group within the patent office. For practitioners, this means that while the technical standards of the art unit may be consistent, they must still account for the individual preferences of 4 different examiners. Managing these 4 pending office actions requires a strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field as interpreted by 4 distinct reviewers. The presence of 4 examiners within a single art unit is a notable feature of this portfolio.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | 1 | 32.8% | +31.6% |
| JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 1 | 68.3% | +37.2% |
| LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 1 | 28.6% | -33.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MULTISITE PAIRED CORTICOSPINAL-MOTONEURONAL STIMULATION THERAPY | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 12d |
| 18759670 | TRACHEOSTOMY ANTI-DISCONNECT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18759244 | ASSISTIVE DEVICE WITH HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEMS | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | — |
| 18658887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING HYPERTONUS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759670 | TRACHEOSTOMY ANTI-DISCONNECT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| 18759244 | ASSISTIVE DEVICE WITH HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEMS | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | — |
| 18658887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING HYPERTONUS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18759670 | TRACHEOSTOMY ANTI-DISCONNECT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18759244 | ASSISTIVE DEVICE WITH HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEMS | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18658887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING HYPERTONUS | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18255866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MULTISITE PAIRED CORTICOSPINAL-MOTONEURONAL STIMULATION THERAPY | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jun 03, 2023 |
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