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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rhythmlink International LLC currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's medical device innovations cover a variety of technical classifications. The presence of 4 art units suggests that practitioners must be prepared for varying examination standards and procedural norms across different USPTO divisions.
The prosecution workload is highly decentralized, involving 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions. Because the number of examiners equals the total number of pending actions, no single examiner holds a majority of the portfolio. This distribution minimizes the risk associated with an individual examiner's specific allowance rates or prosecution timelines. Practitioners can approach each case as an independent negotiation without concern for cross-case precedent within the company's current pending set.
MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC is designated as the busiest examiner, yet he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This figure reinforces the observation that the portfolio is spread thinly across the USPTO's examining corps. With 5 distinct examiners, the company maintains a broad footprint that requires monitoring multiple examiner profiles simultaneously to optimize prosecution strategies.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
| CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 1 | 18.2% | -22.2% |
| OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 1 | 78.5% | +11.3% |
| CURRAN, GREGORY H | 1 | 90.2% | +5.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211454 | MULTI-ATTENUATOR NEUROLOGICAL ELECTRODE SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENVIRONMENTS | CURRAN, GREGORY H | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466913 | BUTTERFLY HINGE SUBDERMAL NEEDLE ELECTRODE | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 7d |
| 18484932 | SQUEEZE AND STICK SAFETY SUBDERMAL NEEDLE ELECTRODE | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466913 | BUTTERFLY HINGE SUBDERMAL NEEDLE ELECTRODE | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 7d |
| 19055658 | ELECTRODE FOR AUTOMATIC SKIN ABRASION AND IMPEDANCE MONITORING | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055658 | ELECTRODE FOR AUTOMATIC SKIN ABRASION AND IMPEDANCE MONITORING | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18484932 | SQUEEZE AND STICK SAFETY SUBDERMAL NEEDLE ELECTRODE | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18466913 | BUTTERFLY HINGE SUBDERMAL NEEDLE ELECTRODE | OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES | 3783 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18211454 | MULTI-ATTENUATOR NEUROLOGICAL ELECTRODE SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENVIRONMENTS | CURRAN, GREGORY H | 2852 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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