Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Scosche Industries Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are both assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's current patent filings. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the pending matters are being evaluated against a consistent set of technical standards and prior art.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, SHOSTAK, ANDREY. As the busiest examiner, SHOSTAK, ANDREY is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This means that the entire pending workload for the portfolio is under the review of this single examiner, which simplifies the communication process and allows for a more consistent prosecution strategy across the company's applications.
Practitioners should note that with 2 pending office actions and only 1 distinct examiner, the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is closely tied to the individual examination style of SHOSTAK, ANDREY. The lack of diversity in examiners or art units means that the applicant can focus their resources on addressing the specific concerns of this one official within a single art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 2 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614248 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ANALYTE EXCRETED BY HUMAN SKIN | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 27d |
| 18205598 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614248 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ANALYTE EXCRETED BY HUMAN SKIN | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 27d |
| 18205598 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614248 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AN ANALYTE EXCRETED BY HUMAN SKIN | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18205598 | BLOOD HEALTH MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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