Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wesper Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is evaluated by a different person. Both examiners are part of 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current applications are technically similar and grouped together by the patent office. The concentration of these matters in 1 distinct art unit allows for a focused prosecution approach within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner is DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly balanced. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit may simplify the prosecution strategy, as the company only needs to navigate the specific guidelines of a single technical group while dealing with 2 different examiners. This structure allows for a focused prosecution approach, even though the company must address the individual perspectives of 2 different examiners. The 2 distinct examiners will each bring a unique perspective to the 2 pending office actions currently being prosecuted.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | 1 | 74.7% | +15.7% |
| MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 1 | 8.6% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17840933 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SENSOR-BASED DETECTION OF SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS AND GENERATING ANIMATION DEPICTION OF THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 7d |
| 18854758 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPONENTS THEREOF RELATING TO RESPIRATION SEVERITY MEASUREMENT, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17840933 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SENSOR-BASED DETECTION OF SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS AND GENERATING ANIMATION DEPICTION OF THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 7d |
| 18854758 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPONENTS THEREOF RELATING TO RESPIRATION SEVERITY MEASUREMENT, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18854758 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPONENTS THEREOF RELATING TO RESPIRATION SEVERITY MEASUREMENT, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 17840933 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SENSOR-BASED DETECTION OF SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS AND GENERATING ANIMATION DEPICTION OF THE SAME | MCCORMACK, ERIN KATHLEEN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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