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
Substrate Hd is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 1 pending office action currently pending. This data point reflects the current scope of the company's active legal challenges in securing patent rights. The portfolio's current activity is focused on a single application, which may indicate a highly specialized technical focus or a strategic pause in broader filing activities.
The prosecution environment is characterized by the involvement of 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's technology is being evaluated within a very specific technical framework. The lack of multiple examiners or art units suggests a straightforward administrative path, as the applicant only needs to satisfy the criteria of a single reviewer, which can simplify the management of the patent prosecution lifecycle.
JOHNSON, NICOLE F is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the busiest examiner pending office action. As the only examiner currently active on the company's files, the perspective of JOHNSON, NICOLE F is central to the portfolio's success. The 1 pending office action represents the only current hurdle for the company within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, and its resolution will determine the immediate strength of the company's patent position.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264564 | COMPUTER DEVICE FOR REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF ELECTROGRAMS | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18264564 | COMPUTER DEVICE FOR REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF ELECTROGRAMS | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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