Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Yasue Mitsukura operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution status for the company includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current legal focus is limited to a specific technical classification. This structure suggests a very direct and uncomplicated administrative path for the pending application within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY, who is currently processing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action that represents the total current activity for the company. Consequently, the immediate future of the company's patent protection in this area depends on the findings of CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific requirements of this examiner. The presence of 1 pending office action highlights a focused stage of development for the company's intellectual property assets.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 59.6% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16618355 | SLEEP DETERMINING DEVICE, SLEEP DETERMINING METHOD, AND SLEEP DETERMINING PROGRAM | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16618355 | SLEEP DETERMINING DEVICE, SLEEP DETERMINING METHOD, AND SLEEP DETERMINING PROGRAM | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16618355 | SLEEP DETERMINING DEVICE, SLEEP DETERMINING METHOD, AND SLEEP DETERMINING PROGRAM | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2019 |
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