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
VITASCOPE INC. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a consolidated prosecution status. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the medical device sector. This focus suggests that the company is prioritizing a particular technological advancement rather than a broad array of diverse mechanical inventions. Such a concentrated strategy can lead to a more predictable prosecution timeline if the examiner's preferences are well understood.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this examiner is managing the company's entire active docket. This concentration allows for a direct prosecution path without the variability introduced by multiple examiners or art units. Consequently, the company's current patent outcomes are tied to the specific review of 1 distinct examiner within the medical device field. Practitioners should focus on the specific history and patterns of SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY to optimize their approach for this active matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 1 | 16.7% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18705259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PEDIATRIC HEARTBEAT MONITORING | SKROBARCZYK III, ROBERT ANTHONY | 3792 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
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