Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stimit AG currently has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, but they are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the company is dealing with multiple individual reviewers, the technical focus of the applications is relatively narrow, falling under the jurisdiction of just 2 specialized administrative units. This concentration can simplify the task of understanding the general examination trends relevant to the company's technology.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SAHAND, SANA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 pending actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed with each examiner handling exactly 1 action. This arrangement requires the applicant to navigate multiple personal examiner styles, even though the 2 distinct art units involved may provide some level of consistency in the broader examination policies. Practitioners should look for commonalities in how the 2 distinct art units handle medical device claims to help inform the responses to all pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.9% |
| LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 1 | 28.6% | -33.3% |
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.3% | +61.0% |
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 43d overdue |
| 18572463 | STIMULATION METHODS FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY OR ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 15d overdue |
| 18246403 | STIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF STIMULATING A NERVE | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 11d overdue |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 9d |
| 18869443 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS | SAHAND, SANA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 43d overdue |
| 18572463 | STIMULATION METHODS FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY OR ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 15d overdue |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 9d |
| 18869443 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS | SAHAND, SANA | — |
| 17769118 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS AND USE THEREOF | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869443 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS | SAHAND, SANA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18572463 | STIMULATION METHODS FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY OR ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18246403 | STIMULATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF STIMULATING A NERVE | LANDEEN, BROGAN RANE | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18005917 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENTS, VENTILATION ARRANGEMENT, STIMULATION METHODS AND VENTILATION METHOD | REDDY, SUNITA | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2023 |
| 17917410 | STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH STIMULATION ARRANGEMENT | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17769118 | RESPIRATION PROMOTING APPARATUS AND USE THEREOF | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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