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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aillis Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is handling exactly one active matter. This one-to-one ratio suggests a broad distribution of the portfolio's current legal challenges across different individuals at the patent office.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which implies that the company's innovations touch upon multiple specialized technical classifications. BOICE, JAMES EDWARD is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending action. This parity among the 3 distinct examiners means that no single individual currently holds a disproportionate influence over the portfolio's immediate outcomes.
Practitioners should note that the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single art unit, as the data shows 2 distinct art units are involved. This dispersion requires monitoring different examination styles and art unit trends simultaneously. The involvement of BOICE, JAMES EDWARD as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action highlights the current low density of the workload per examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 1 | 87.4% | +15.2% |
| HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 1 | 53.9% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643098 | Processing Device, Processing Program, And Processing Method | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 11d overdue |
| 17771536 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643098 | Processing Device, Processing Program, And Processing Method | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 11d overdue |
| 17771536 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823997 | Assistance Tool, Imaging Device, Program, And Method | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18643098 | Processing Device, Processing Program, And Processing Method | DINH, ANH-KHOA N | 3796 | §101 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 17771536 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM | HUYNH, AN SON PHI | 3795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
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