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
Skinos Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current research covers multiple technical niches. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, so each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different person.
WELCH, HALLE MARGARET is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending office actions, there is no overlap in the current prosecution pipeline. Practitioners must develop unique strategies for each examiner and art unit involved in these 2 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +58.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17617511 | TOTAL BODY WATER CONTENT EVALUATION SYSTEM | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| 19106741 | DEHYDRATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17617511 | TOTAL BODY WATER CONTENT EVALUATION SYSTEM | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106741 | DEHYDRATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 17617511 | TOTAL BODY WATER CONTENT EVALUATION SYSTEM | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSkinos Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Halle Margaret Welch has the most, with 1 of Skinos Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
