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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verathon Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different person. Both examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, which provides a consistent technical framework for the prosecution of these matters.
BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active. The other pending action is handled by the second distinct examiner. This distribution requires the applicant to manage two separate examiner relationships while adhering to the standards of 1 distinct art unit.
The presence of 2 pending office actions within the single art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically related. While the 2 distinct examiners may have different styles, the shared art unit environment likely means similar prior art will be applied. This balance of examiner variety and art unit consistency is a feature of the company's current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 1 | 51.6% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026944 | PROBABILITY MAP-BASED ULTRASOUND SCANNING | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026944 | PROBABILITY MAP-BASED ULTRASOUND SCANNING | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19026944 | PROBABILITY MAP-BASED ULTRASOUND SCANNING | BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE | 3797 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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