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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Well Being Digital Limited is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is subject to an independent review process. This level of examiner diversity can be beneficial for a portfolio, as it prevents the entire prosecution strategy from being stalled by the tendencies of a single individual.
The company's filings are also spread across 2 distinct art units, which indicates some technical breadth within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. With 3 pending office actions and 2 distinct art units, at least one art unit is handling multiple applications. This structure requires practitioners to be mindful of potential overlaps in prior art or examiner consultations within those specific units.
The busiest examiner for the company is ABOUELELA, MAY A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending actions, the workload is perfectly balanced. No single examiner, including ABOUELELA, MAY A, holds a majority of the pending cases. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests a diversified approach to securing intellectual property rights in the medical and mechanical fields.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABOUELELA, MAY A | 1 | 75.3% | +36.1% |
| HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 56.6% | +53.3% |
| SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 1 | 52.0% | +55.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846649 | A PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPY SENSOR HAVING A NOVEL ARRANGEMENT | ABOUELELA, MAY A | — |
| 17053083 | EARPIECE AND A METHOD FOR DETECTING PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846649 | A PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPY SENSOR HAVING A NOVEL ARRANGEMENT | ABOUELELA, MAY A | — |
| 17425669 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A STATE OF OVER-HEATING OR A RISK OF OVER-HEATING OF A SUBJECT | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 17053083 | EARPIECE AND A METHOD FOR DETECTING PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846649 | A PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPY SENSOR HAVING A NOVEL ARRANGEMENT | ABOUELELA, MAY A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 17425669 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A STATE OF OVER-HEATING OR A RISK OF OVER-HEATING OF A SUBJECT | HANEY, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
| 17053083 | EARPIECE AND A METHOD FOR DETECTING PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION | SHAFQAT, AMY JEANETTE | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2020 |
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