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
Sensor Maestros LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing the prosecution landscape. The busiest examiner, GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The 1 pending office action assigned to GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER is part of the company's total volume of 2 pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations span different technical sub-fields. Practitioners should coordinate across the 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments across the portfolio. This variety in examiners and units requires a strategy that accounts for multiple perspectives within the patent office.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
| BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217398 | Visual Or Audible Indicators Of Sensed Motion In A Hockey Puck | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 71d overdue |
| 18618817 | Visual Or Audible Indicators Of Sensed Motion In Sport Object | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618817 | Visual Or Audible Indicators Of Sensed Motion In Sport Object | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18217398 | Visual Or Audible Indicators Of Sensed Motion In A Hockey Puck | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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