Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Western Health is currently managing 1 pending office action at the USPTO. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner, which represents a very concentrated workload for the company. Data shows 0 distinct art units associated with this portfolio, suggesting the matter may be in a transitional or highly specialized status. The focus on 1 examiner indicates that the current legal strategy is directed toward 1 point of contact without broader departmental distribution. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PHILIPS, BRADLEY H, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, this individual manages the entirety of the company's active patent matters. The absence of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the administrative burden of prosecution but increases the importance of the relationship with this specific examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 pending office action to move the portfolio forward effectively. The 0 distinct art units figure highlights the unique nature of this active matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 1 | 67.4% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683413 | FACE MASK | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683413 | FACE MASK | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18683413 | FACE MASK | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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