Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Smarter Reality LLC

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

Analysis

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.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (50%)
§103 only1 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 1 58.2% +25.9%
LANE, DANIEL E 1 3.9% +8.3%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18050456 Methods and Systems for a Conflict Resolution Simulator LANE, DANIEL E 26d

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18653792 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A TRAINING FUSION SIMULATOR MUSSELMAN, TIMOTHY A 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3715 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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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