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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sana Health Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending case is being reviewed by a separate examiner in a different specialized unit, requiring the company to manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WELCH, WILLOW GRACE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total count of pending actions is 2, this examiner handles 1 of the active prosecution matters. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated under different technical classifications. This structure may lead to different examination speeds or outcomes depending on the specific art unit's current backlog and the examiner's individual approach to 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| DORNA, CARRIE R | 1 | 72.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDITORY, VISUAL AND/OR AUDITORY AND VISUAL CORTEX TARGETING AND TREATMENT | DORNA, CARRIE R | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDITORY, VISUAL AND/OR AUDITORY AND VISUAL CORTEX TARGETING AND TREATMENT | DORNA, CARRIE R | 32d overdue |
| 18111217 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION OF ADJUSTED ELECTRONIC STIMULUS PATTERNS | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18111217 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION OF ADJUSTED ELECTRONIC STIMULUS PATTERNS | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 17742833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDITORY, VISUAL AND/OR AUDITORY AND VISUAL CORTEX TARGETING AND TREATMENT | DORNA, CARRIE R | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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