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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' Di Bologna is managing 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning that every active matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical variety within the university's research.
Eduardo C. Robert is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. The 3 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, requiring the management of 3 different examiner styles. This distribution ensures that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current workload, necessitating a balanced approach to the 3 pending matters in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area.
For practitioners, the 3 pending office actions represent 3 separate prosecution efforts. Because these are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, the university must manage multiple technical perspectives and examiner styles. Success requires a strategy that is both examiner-specific and consistent with the standards of the 2 distinct art units involved in the current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERT, EDUARDO C | 1 | 24.5% | +14.4% |
| KIM, SUN U | 1 | 78.2% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728178 | PROSTHETIC IMPLANT OF THE ESR TYPE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE PROSTHETIC IMPLANT | ROBERT, EDUARDO C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728178 | PROSTHETIC IMPLANT OF THE ESR TYPE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE PROSTHETIC IMPLANT | ROBERT, EDUARDO C | — |
| 18690535 | Device for the Placement of Organic Tissue and Relative Apparatus | KIM, SUN U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728178 | PROSTHETIC IMPLANT OF THE ESR TYPE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE PROSTHETIC IMPLANT | ROBERT, EDUARDO C | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18690535 | Device for the Placement of Organic Tissue and Relative Apparatus | KIM, SUN U | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
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