Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Righteye LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The portfolio's current activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated effort in a specific mechanical or medical field.
With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution path is singular and depends on the specific requirements of HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN. The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the portfolio's current examination phase. Practitioners can focus their resources on this interaction rather than managing a distributed portfolio. The alignment within 1 distinct art unit ensures that the examination remains consistent with the standards of that specific USPTO division without interference from other units.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING USER PHYSIOLOGY BASED ON EYE TRACKING DATA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING USER PHYSIOLOGY BASED ON EYE TRACKING DATA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING USER PHYSIOLOGY BASED ON EYE TRACKING DATA | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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