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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Slyde Analytics LLC is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current innovations are being evaluated by a single specialized technical group. However, the prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which introduces different perspectives on the company's medical device claims even within the same art unit. This split in examiner assignment may lead to varied prosecution timelines or requirements for the pending matters.
NGUYEN, HAI L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The other pending action is handled by a different examiner, ensuring that the company's 2 pending office actions are not reliant on the discretion of a single individual. This distribution of examiners within the distinct art unit allows the company to navigate the mechanical engineering landscape through multiple channels. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with both examiners to identify any common themes or divergent approaches taken within the art unit. The presence of multiple examiners for a small number of actions provides a broader base of feedback on the company's patentable subject matter in the medical device 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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HAI L | 1 | 87.2% | +9.4% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING A RACE TIME | NGUYEN, HAI L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16453632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING PHYSICAL EXERCISES | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING A RACE TIME | NGUYEN, HAI L | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 16453632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING PHYSICAL EXERCISES | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jun 26, 2019 |
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