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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Winview Ip Holdings LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the company is MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This distribution shows that the company's active matters are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit but split between 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions in total, each examiner is currently reviewing 1 application, indicating a unified technical focus despite the involvement of different personnel.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 1 | 54.3% | +33.8% |
| LANEAU, RONALD | 1 | 88.2% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452580 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING RISK IN SETTING ODDS FOR SINGLE FIXED IN-PLAY PROPOSITIONS UTILIZING REAL TIME INPUT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| 19038268 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING MULTIPLE CONTESTS OF SKILL WITH A SINGLE PERFORMANCE | LANEAU, RONALD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452580 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING RISK IN SETTING ODDS FOR SINGLE FIXED IN-PLAY PROPOSITIONS UTILIZING REAL TIME INPUT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19452580 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING RISK IN SETTING ODDS FOR SINGLE FIXED IN-PLAY PROPOSITIONS UTILIZING REAL TIME INPUT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | MCCULLOCH JR, WILLIAM H | 3715 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2026 |
| 19038268 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING MULTIPLE CONTESTS OF SKILL WITH A SINGLE PERFORMANCE | LANEAU, RONALD | — | §101§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
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