Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tonal Systems Inc. is currently addressing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, yet they are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the technical subject matter is consistent, the company must manage 3 different examiner perspectives.
KENNEDY, JOSHUA T is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 total actions, the workload is distributed among unique individuals. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit may allow for consistency in procedural expectations, even as the company responds to 3 different examiners.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 1 | 51.1% | +48.5% |
| LEE, JOSHUA S | 1 | 63.3% | +33.5% |
| GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 1 | 70.3% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821748 | EXERCISE MACHINE RESISTANCE IDENTIFIER | LEE, JOSHUA S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777189 | DIGITAL STRENGTH TRAINING | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 45d overdue |
| 18951173 | PROGRESSIVE STRENGTH BASELINE | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | — |
| 18821748 | EXERCISE MACHINE RESISTANCE IDENTIFIER | LEE, JOSHUA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951173 | PROGRESSIVE STRENGTH BASELINE | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 3784 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18821748 | EXERCISE MACHINE RESISTANCE IDENTIFIER | LEE, JOSHUA S | 3784 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18777189 | DIGITAL STRENGTH TRAINING | GANESAN, SUNDHARA M | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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