Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spes Medica Srl currently manages 2 pending office actions. These actions are categorized within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The 2 pending office actions represent the current scale of the company's engagement with the patent office.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution into 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are being reviewed by different specialized groups. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the applicant must address different examiner expectations for each matter.
WELCH, WILLOW GRACE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is responsible for 1 pending office action. While WELCH, WILLOW GRACE handles 1 matter, the other pending office action is assigned to a different official. This spread across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's progress is influenced by more than 1 individual perspective within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 1 | 18.2% | -22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778206 | ELECTRODE FOR RECORDING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC SIGNALS AND/OR STIMULATING PATIENTS | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 127d overdue |
| 17817770 | Electrode support device for the registration of electroencephalographic signals | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 56d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17817770 | Electrode support device for the registration of electroencephalographic signals | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 56d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17817770 | Electrode support device for the registration of electroencephalographic signals | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 17778206 | ELECTRODE FOR RECORDING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC SIGNALS AND/OR STIMULATING PATIENTS | CHA, CASEY GEORGE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 127d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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