Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rhode Island Hospital currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, showing some technical variety in the hospital's active filings.
DOWNEY, JOHN R is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 4 distinct examiners engaged with the portfolio. The 4 pending office actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the prosecution strategy must account for different examination environments within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
The one-to-one ratio of 4 pending office actions to 4 distinct examiners means there is no concentration of cases under a single person. DOWNEY, JOHN R handles 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other examiners. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 3 distinct art units, each potentially having different procedural nuances for these medical and mechanical applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 1 | 55.3% | +21.1% |
| KIM, EUN HWA | 1 | 72.3% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842001 | HYDROGEL CONDUCTIVITY IMPACTS SKIN DOSE FROM TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| 18708467 | PREDICTING COVID-19 ANTIBODIES AMONG SURVIVORS WITH DEEP RNA SEQUENCING | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274279 | IMAGE-BASED APPROACH TO EVALUATE CONNECTIVE TISSUE STRUCTURE, REMODELING, AND RISK OF INJURY | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 14d |
| 17997329 | SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY AND POLYMER ELECTRODE ARRAY FOR MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SPINAL CORD AND BRAIN STIMULATION AND RECORDING | KIM, EUN HWA | 30d |
| 18842001 | HYDROGEL CONDUCTIVITY IMPACTS SKIN DOSE FROM TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2845 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842001 | HYDROGEL CONDUCTIVITY IMPACTS SKIN DOSE FROM TUMOR TREATING FIELDS | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18708467 | PREDICTING COVID-19 ANTIBODIES AMONG SURVIVORS WITH DEEP RNA SEQUENCING | CORNELIUS, CLAIRE ADRIENNE | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18274279 | IMAGE-BASED APPROACH TO EVALUATE CONNECTIVE TISSUE STRUCTURE, REMODELING, AND RISK OF INJURY | RAYMOND, KEITH MICHAEL | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 17997329 | SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY AND POLYMER ELECTRODE ARRAY FOR MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SPINAL CORD AND BRAIN STIMULATION AND RECORDING | KIM, EUN HWA | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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