Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tivic Health Systems Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LEVICKY, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending action.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that while the portfolio is limited in size, it covers different technical aspects requiring varied examiner expertise. This requires a prosecution strategy that can navigate the specific precedents of multiple administrative groups. For the practitioner, the distribution across 3 distinct examiners means that the company is receiving diverse perspectives on its medical device claims.
With each examiner handling a single pending matter, the applicant has the opportunity to develop tailored arguments for each specific invention. This decentralized approach within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area can help in identifying the most effective pathways to allowance. The current prosecution profile reflects a balanced distribution of workload across the assigned USPTO staff, with each 1 pending action receiving individual attention.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.0% |
| ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 1 | 76.5% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18365635 | MICROCURRENT TMJ TREATMENT DEVICE WITH AN ADAPTIVE TRIGGER | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 12d |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 12d |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18512454 | MIGRAINE TREATMENT DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CIRCUIT | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18365635 | MICROCURRENT TMJ TREATMENT DEVICE WITH AN ADAPTIVE TRIGGER | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18073449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATING SINUS DISCOMFORT | ALTER MORSCHAUSER, ALYSSA MARGO | 3796 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
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