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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xii Medical Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. GEORGE ROBERT EVANISKO is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. The concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different person. Practitioners should prepare for potentially different perspectives even within the same art unit for these 2 pending office actions.
The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering subject matter is highly specialized. GEORGE ROBERT EVANISKO is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is half of the current pending workload. The other of the 2 pending office actions is handled by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement requires practitioners to maintain 2 separate examiner dialogues within 1 art unit. While the technical field is focused, the 2 pending office actions are being evaluated by 2 distinct examiners, each bringing their own interpretation to the process.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | 1 | 70.4% | +34.9% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 68.0% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — |
| 18475818 | NEUROMODULATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING | EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18475818 | NEUROMODULATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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