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
Rs Rehab Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different technical division of the patent office.
LAU, MICHAEL J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action is 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. Because the 2 pending office actions are in 2 distinct art units, the company faces a broader range of technical scrutiny than if the actions were centralized. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners further suggests that the prosecution of these Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering assets will involve two independent sets of examination criteria. This structure requires the company to manage distinct strategies for each of the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, MICHAEL J | 1 | 72.0% | +23.4% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 1 | 8.3% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17868176 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION THERAPY APPARATUS FOR DYSPHAGIA AND METHOD THEREOF | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 8d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17868176 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION THERAPY APPARATUS FOR DYSPHAGIA AND METHOD THEREOF | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 8d overdue |
| 18727069 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUXILIARY INFORMATION ON DYSPHAGIA BY USING VOICE ANALYSIS | LAU, MICHAEL J | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18727069 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUXILIARY INFORMATION ON DYSPHAGIA BY USING VOICE ANALYSIS | LAU, MICHAEL J | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 17868176 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION THERAPY APPARATUS FOR DYSPHAGIA AND METHOD THEREOF | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2022 |
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