Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zynex Monitoring Solutions Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending applications cover different technical aspects within the medical and mechanical engineering fields. This distribution requires the company to manage its prosecution strategy across multiple specialized examination teams for its 3 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, JACOB, OOMMEN, is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners involved, each examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution across the examiners means that prosecution progress is not dependent on the schedule of any single individual. Because the workload is spread across 2 distinct art units, the company must be prepared for the different administrative timelines inherent to those specific groups. Managing the pending office actions across multiple art units requires a strategy that accounts for multiple technical perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOB, OOMMEN | 1 | 79.1% | +17.5% |
| CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 31.5% | +30.3% |
| FARDANESH, MARJAN | 1 | 72.6% | +18.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321195 | Moisture Protected Photoplethysmographic Laser Housing | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 52d overdue |
| 18775095 | Pigmentation Insensitive Pulse Oximeter | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321195 | Moisture Protected Photoplethysmographic Laser Housing | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 52d overdue |
| 18970587 | Constant Current Drive for Lasers in Photoplethysmography | JACOB, OOMMEN | — |
| 18775095 | Pigmentation Insensitive Pulse Oximeter | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970587 | Constant Current Drive for Lasers in Photoplethysmography | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18775095 | Pigmentation Insensitive Pulse Oximeter | CATINA, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18321195 | Moisture Protected Photoplethysmographic Laser Housing | FARDANESH, MARJAN | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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