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
Wellbrain LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent activity is concentrated on a specific technical innovation, with all prosecution efforts directed through a single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner, MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the entire active workload for the company's portfolio. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is confined to a single specialized group at the patent office. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific expectations of MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS to ensure a favorable outcome for this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering application.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution is streamlined but lacks the diversity of multiple examiner perspectives. The busiest examiner, MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS, handles the 1 pending office action, making her the sole arbiter of the company's current patent prospects. Strategy should be developed with a deep understanding of this examiner's past decisions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.8% | +31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18487270 | Treatment Using Individualized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18487270 | Treatment Using Individualized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18487270 | Treatment Using Individualized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWellbrain LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christine Hopkins Matthews has the most, with 1 of Wellbrain LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
