Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Thyroscope Inc. currently faces 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are situated across 3 distinct art units, showing a relatively tight focus for their mechanical and medical device patent applications. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, matching the count of pending actions. This arrangement ensures that each active matter is being reviewed by a different official at the patent office.
MOSS, JAMES R is the busiest examiner for this entity, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no individual examiner is currently managing multiple files for the company, as the 4 distinct examiners each handle one of the active matters. With 3 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is subject to the standards of several specialized groups. The presence of 1 pending office action under MOSS, JAMES R indicates a decentralized prosecution path where each case is evaluated independently.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSS, JAMES R | 1 | 51.1% | +41.6% |
| KRETZER, KYLE W. | 1 | 64.8% | +41.5% |
| ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 1 | 53.7% | +26.8% |
| SHELDEN, BION A | 1 | 22.5% | +18.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891429 | DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD USING TRAINED MODEL, AND SYSTEM CARRYING OUT SAME | SHELDEN, BION A | 4d overdue |
| 19095850 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALERT OF POTENTIAL THYROID ABNORMALITY | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
| 19041712 | THYROID FUNCTION MONITORING METHOD ACCORDING TO MEDICATION, AND MONITORING SERVER AND USER TERMINAL PERFORMING THE SAME | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
| 18891656 | METHOD OF MONITORING DISEASE OF PATIENT ON BASIS OF HEART RATE INFORMATION AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891429 | DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD USING TRAINED MODEL, AND SYSTEM CARRYING OUT SAME | SHELDEN, BION A | 4d overdue |
| 19095850 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALERT OF POTENTIAL THYROID ABNORMALITY | MOSS, JAMES R | — |
| 19041712 | THYROID FUNCTION MONITORING METHOD ACCORDING TO MEDICATION, AND MONITORING SERVER AND USER TERMINAL PERFORMING THE SAME | KRETZER, KYLE W. | — |
| 18891656 | METHOD OF MONITORING DISEASE OF PATIENT ON BASIS OF HEART RATE INFORMATION AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095850 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALERT OF POTENTIAL THYROID ABNORMALITY | MOSS, JAMES R | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19041712 | THYROID FUNCTION MONITORING METHOD ACCORDING TO MEDICATION, AND MONITORING SERVER AND USER TERMINAL PERFORMING THE SAME | KRETZER, KYLE W. | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18891656 | METHOD OF MONITORING DISEASE OF PATIENT ON BASIS OF HEART RATE INFORMATION AND SERVER FOR PERFORMING SAME | ANJARIA, SHREYA PARAG | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18891429 | DISEASE DIAGNOSIS METHOD USING TRAINED MODEL, AND SYSTEM CARRYING OUT SAME | SHELDEN, BION A | 3685 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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