Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Teratech Corporation faces 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite the volume of actions, prosecution is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit and involves only 2 distinct examiners, which may allow for consistent messaging across applications. This concentration of 5 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent filings.
BEGEMAN, ANDREW W serves as the busiest examiner with 4 busiest examiner pending actions. This concentration means that 4 of the 5 total pending office actions are under the review of 1 individual, making this examiner the primary gatekeeper for the company's current patent objectives. Managing 4 cases with 2 distinct examiners provides a unique opportunity to leverage consistent arguments, though it also increases the impact of BEGEMAN, ANDREW W on the overall portfolio.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 4 | 46.2% | +20.2% |
| CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 1 | 83.5% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914810 | TABLET ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 112d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090316 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND MONITORING | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 60d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914810 | TABLET ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 112d overdue |
| 16938515 | Devices and Methods for Ultrasound Monitoring | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 37d overdue |
| 18196379 | TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND DEVICES AND METHODS | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 7d |
| 18090316 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND MONITORING | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 60d |
| 16414215 | PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18914810 | TABLET ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | CATTUNGAL, SANJAY | 3798 | DP | Final Rejection | 112d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18196379 | TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND DEVICES AND METHODS | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18090316 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ULTRASOUND MONITORING | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 16938515 | Devices and Methods for Ultrasound Monitoring | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2020 |
| 16414215 | PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2019 |
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