Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spark Biomedical Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently active in its patent portfolio. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, which results in a distribution of the workload across the identified individuals. The data shows 0 distinct art units for these filings, which reflects the current classification of the cases.
HULBERT, AMANDA K is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action assigned to HULBERT, AMANDA K accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions reported. With the distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate interactions for each of the pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HULBERT, AMANDA K | 1 | 84.6% | +4.2% |
| MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 1 | 75.2% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002039 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING MOTION SICKNESS USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807124 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVING BLOOD MANAGEMENT | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807124 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVING BLOOD MANAGEMENT | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002039 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING MOTION SICKNESS USING ELECTRICAL STIMULATION | HULBERT, AMANDA K | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18807124 | ELECTRICAL STIMULATION METHODS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVING BLOOD MANAGEMENT | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
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