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
Signifier Medical Technologies Limited is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused prosecution strategy for its current filings. The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company is targeting a specific technical niche. This concentration simplifies the management of the company's current intellectual property efforts. The data shows that the company's current USPTO footprint is limited to a single active matter.
The busiest examiner for the company is MILLER, DANIEL A, who is handling 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company at the USPTO. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate patent prospects are concentrated in one place. This streamlined structure allows for a clear and direct focus on the requirements of this specific examiner and art unit. The outcome of this pending action will be the primary factor in the company's current patent success within the medical device sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, DANIEL A | 1 | 34.3% | +57.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328670 | ORAL MUSCLE COMPOSITION DETECTION AND TRAINING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328670 | ORAL MUSCLE COMPOSITION DETECTION AND TRAINING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18328670 | ORAL MUSCLE COMPOSITION DETECTION AND TRAINING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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