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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Timeshifter, Inc. is dealing with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the current patent strategy is focused on a single point of contact within the USPTO, rather than a diversified portfolio across multiple engineering disciplines. The single distinct art unit suggests that the company's technology is being evaluated within a specific specialized group at the patent office, which may have its own unique examination standards for medical devices.
REDDY, SUNITA is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the portfolio only includes a single distinct examiner and art unit, the outcome of the 1 pending office action depends on the specific feedback from this examiner. This single action represents the total pending workload for Timeshifter, Inc. in this dataset. The company's immediate success in securing patent rights is therefore dependent on the resolution of the pending office action with REDDY, SUNITA, who is the only examiner currently reviewing its work. A successful outcome here would be the primary driver of the company's current patent growth.
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 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDY, SUNITA | 1 | 67.3% | +61.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16432544 | Method and System for Generating and Providing Notifications for a Circadian Shift Protocol | REDDY, SUNITA | 70d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16432544 | Method and System for Generating and Providing Notifications for a Circadian Shift Protocol | REDDY, SUNITA | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16432544 | Method and System for Generating and Providing Notifications for a Circadian Shift Protocol | REDDY, SUNITA | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 05, 2019 |
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