Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sheba Impact Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This indicates that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This level of distribution requires the company to adapt to 8 different examiner styles while navigating the procedures of 6 different technical departments.
EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With 8 distinct examiners each handling 1 action, the prosecution workload is fully decentralized. The involvement of 6 distinct art units suggests a variety of technical sub-specialties within the company's pending medical device portfolio. Because there are 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, no single examiner has an outsized influence on the company's current patenting outcomes, necessitating a broad oversight strategy across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | 1 | 79.2% | +19.1% |
| GEDEON, BRIAN T | 1 | 86.9% | +7.2% |
| LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
| MCDONALD, JAMES F | 1 | 59.1% | +42.8% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 1 | 78.0% | +6.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19123857 | CORONARY SINUS DEPLOYED HEART PACING APPARATUS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696392 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING TACTILE SENSATION USING A NANOGENERATOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 46d overdue |
| 18293996 | PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT FOR THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 12d |
| 18732657 | HYBRID CONTINUOUS POSITIVE PRESSURE AND SURFACE IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — |
| 18572809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONDITION OF A SUBJECT BASED ON CONNECTOME | MCDONALD, JAMES F | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696392 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING TACTILE SENSATION USING A NANOGENERATOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 46d overdue |
| 18293996 | PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT FOR THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 12d |
| 19132554 | MATTRESS FOR A SURGICAL TABLE | EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | — |
| 18572809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONDITION OF A SUBJECT BASED ON CONNECTOME | MCDONALD, JAMES F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132554 | MATTRESS FOR A SURGICAL TABLE | EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19123857 | CORONARY SINUS DEPLOYED HEART PACING APPARATUS | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 18732657 | HYBRID CONTINUOUS POSITIVE PRESSURE AND SURFACE IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LANTZ, KARSTEN FOSTER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18696392 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTORING TACTILE SENSATION USING A NANOGENERATOR | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18293996 | PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT FOR THE TREATMENT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18572809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONDITION OF A SUBJECT BASED ON CONNECTOME | MCDONALD, JAMES F | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18376460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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