Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rxfunction Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting a varied technological footprint within the medical device sector. The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 5 pending office actions is currently being reviewed by a different individual.
XU, JUSTIN is the busiest examiner, though they only manage 1 pending office action. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 of the 5 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of concentration across 4 distinct art units means the company must navigate 5 separate examiner-specific prosecution tracks simultaneously. XU, JUSTIN is one of the 5 distinct examiners involved.
The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are being evaluated by multiple administrative groups. With 5 distinct examiners providing feedback, the company must be prepared for a variety of prosecution styles. This decentralized structure for the 5 pending office actions ensures that the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the review of any single individual.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JUSTIN | 1 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
| NGUYEN, VAN TA | 1 | 70.0% | +60.0% |
| REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 1 | 30.2% | +33.2% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
| CORDERO, LINA M | 1 | 71.6% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703431 | TOE OFF DETECTION METHOD WITH A PRESSURE SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | 14d |
| 18681939 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF TIMESTAMPED DATA | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 21d |
| 18559104 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A TRAINING | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 40d |
| 18256471 | FOOTWEAR AND METHOD FOR FOOT VELOCITY ESTIMATION | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703431 | TOE OFF DETECTION METHOD WITH A PRESSURE SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | 14d |
| 18681939 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF TIMESTAMPED DATA | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 21d |
| 18464602 | SENSORY MODULATION SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING GAIT FUNCTION AND/OR BALANCE CONTROL AND RELATED METHODS | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 33d |
| 18559104 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A TRAINING | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 40d |
| 18256471 | FOOTWEAR AND METHOD FOR FOOT VELOCITY ESTIMATION | CORDERO, LINA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2465 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 2863 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18703431 | TOE OFF DETECTION METHOD WITH A PRESSURE SENSOR | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18681939 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF TIMESTAMPED DATA | NGUYEN, VAN TA | 2465 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18559104 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A TRAINING | REICHERT, RACHELLE LEIGH | 3686 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18464602 | SENSORY MODULATION SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING GAIT FUNCTION AND/OR BALANCE CONTROL AND RELATED METHODS | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18256471 | FOOTWEAR AND METHOD FOR FOOT VELOCITY ESTIMATION | CORDERO, LINA M | 2863 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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