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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensill Inc. operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the organization has 1 pending office action. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring that the company's current legal efforts are concentrated on one specific set of claims. The prosecution is further localized within 1 distinct art unit.
WESTFALL, SARAH ANN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending actions is 1, this examiner is the only USPTO official with an active role in the company's current applications. This creates a direct and singular line of communication between the applicant and the patent office.
Practitioners should recognize that with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there is no opportunity to compare different examination styles within the current portfolio. The progress of the 1 pending office action will be entirely subject to the interpretations and requirements of WESTFALL, SARAH ANN. This focused structure requires a precise response strategy tailored to the specific standards of the single art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 1 | 5.0% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129676 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS TO COLLECT, STORE, AND ANALYZE CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 42d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129676 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS TO COLLECT, STORE, AND ANALYZE CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18129676 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS TO COLLECT, STORE, AND ANALYZE CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSensill Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sarah Ann Westfall has the most, with 1 of Sensill Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.