Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Skinos Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review and a separate evaluation of its merits from different officials. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the medical technologies being patented are technically related and fall under a single set of classification standards.
Halle Margaret Welch is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action currently assigned to her. With 2 pending office actions in 1 art unit, the company can analyze the unit's specific standards and prior art preferences to inform its overall prosecution strategy. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means the company must navigate different individual perspectives and examination styles within a technical field in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Practitioners can leverage the technical consistency of the 1 art unit to develop a unified set of arguments, while still tailoring their approach to the specific feedback from Halle Margaret Welch and the other assigned examiner. Having 2 pending office actions provides the company with multiple opportunities to secure patent protection for its medical innovations. The outcome of these actions will be a key indicator of the company's success in navigating the regulatory environment of the medical device and mechanical engineering field.
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% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106741 | DEHYDRATION NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | — | §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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