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
Sb Solutions Inc. manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific focus for the company's current mechanical engineering filings, indicating that the technology falls within a narrow administrative classification. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
EPPERT, LUCY CLARE is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 distinct examiner handles the total workload currently identified in the data. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the company's current strategy relies on the assigned examiner as the primary point of contact at the office. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution efforts, and the assigned examiner confirms that this work is not distributed across multiple individuals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 60.0% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580930 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD IN CONSIDERATION OF SENSOR STATE MEASUREMENT | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 18d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580930 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD IN CONSIDERATION OF SENSOR STATE MEASUREMENT | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580930 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND METHOD IN CONSIDERATION OF SENSOR STATE MEASUREMENT | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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