Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spinex Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a concentrated effort on a specific patent application within this technical field.
KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET serves as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total pending office actions is 1, this examiner oversees the company's entire pending portfolio. Prosecution strategy should be tailored to the specific practices of this examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. This focused interaction allows for a deep understanding of the examiner's perspective on the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702756 | Wearable Non-Invasive Central Nervous System Neuromodulator and Methods for Using Same | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18702756 | Wearable Non-Invasive Central Nervous System Neuromodulator and Methods for Using Same | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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