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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensome SAS manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, indicating a narrow range of current examination activity. This focus suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific medical device or mechanical system in its current patenting efforts.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HENSON, DEVIN B, who holds the pending office action. With the entire active workload centralized here, the company's prosecution strategy must focus on the specific tendencies and history of this single examiner. Understanding how this examiner typically handles medical device claims will be vital for successfully resolving the pending office action. The lack of other pending matters means that the company's immediate patenting goals are entirely dependent on the resolution of this single matter.
The presence of only a single distinct art unit means that the company's technology is being evaluated by a single specialized group. This concentration allows for a highly targeted approach but also means that the company's entire active portfolio is subject to the specific interpretations of this one unit. The progress of the pending office action will determine the company's immediate success at the patent office. Practitioners should prioritize a response that addresses the technical and procedural requirements of this specific examination environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSON, DEVIN B | 1 | 65.0% | +43.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18105651 | INSERTABLE DEVICE FOR IN VIVO SENSING | HENSON, DEVIN B | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18105651 | INSERTABLE DEVICE FOR IN VIVO SENSING | HENSON, DEVIN B | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
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