Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Simply Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the company's intellectual property spans several specialized niches within the broader technology area.
EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he only manages 1 pending office action. This indicates that each of the distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the pending actions. The concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are different, some overlap in technical classification exists. Practitioners should prepare for a diverse set of examiner perspectives when addressing the pending office actions. This distribution across the examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy that accounts for multiple individual styles within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Maintaining a consistent voice across these various interactions is essential for long-term portfolio health.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 1 | 43.2% | +32.2% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE | 1 | 79.4% | +15.5% |
| BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 1 | 42.7% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18153389 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGING TEACHING AND/OR VOCAL TRAINING LESSON | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 29d |
| 18415869 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEACHING THE CREATION OF AN OBJECT OF THE VISUAL ARTS | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | — |
| 18447497 | VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED OR MIXED REALITY INSTRUMENT TEACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18153389 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGING TEACHING AND/OR VOCAL TRAINING LESSON | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 29d |
| 18415869 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEACHING THE CREATION OF AN OBJECT OF THE VISUAL ARTS | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | — |
| 18447497 | VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED OR MIXED REALITY INSTRUMENT TEACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18317980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND/OR ADAPTING MUSICAL NOTATIONS | SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2800 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18415869 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEACHING THE CREATION OF AN OBJECT OF THE VISUAL ARTS | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18447497 | VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED OR MIXED REALITY INSTRUMENT TEACHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18317980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND/OR ADAPTING MUSICAL NOTATIONS | SCHREIBER, CHRISTINA MARIE | 2800 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18153389 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGING TEACHING AND/OR VOCAL TRAINING LESSON | BULLINGTON, ROBERT P | 3715 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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