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
Smarter Reality LLC is currently handling 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated within a specific regulatory framework at the patent office, likely focusing on a particular type of medical device. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A, who is overseeing 1 pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, preventing any single examiner from having total control over the company's current pipeline. The focus on 1 distinct art unit may allow the applicant to apply consistent legal arguments and technical definitions across both pending matters. This can lead to a more efficient prosecution process, as the 2 distinct examiners are likely familiar with the same body of prior art and the same general technological standards within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The presence of these pending office actions indicates an active effort to expand the company's intellectual property in a specialized mechanical domain. Because the matters are in a single art unit, the company can benefit from a unified strategy even while dealing with multiple examiners. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from both MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A and the other examiner to identify any common themes or objections that could impact the 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 58.2% | +25.9% |
| LANE, DANIEL E | 1 | 3.9% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18050456 | Methods and Systems for a Conflict Resolution Simulator | LANE, DANIEL E | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653792 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRAINING FUSION SIMULATOR | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653792 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRAINING FUSION SIMULATOR | MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18050456 | Methods and Systems for a Conflict Resolution Simulator | LANE, DANIEL E | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
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