Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alps South, LLC is actively prosecuting applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, with 5 pending office actions currently in the system. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that most applications are being handled by different individuals. The filings are categorized into 2 distinct art units, indicating a focus on specific technical sub-sectors within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
DAVID W BATES is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This means that while 4 distinct examiners are involved, the busiest examiner is responsible for a portion of the active workload. This concentration, combined with the focus on 2 distinct art units, suggests that the company's prosecution success will be heavily influenced by a small group of USPTO personnel. Practitioners should monitor the 2 busiest examiner pending office actions for consistency in the examiner's approach across the applications they are managing.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 2 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| NGUYEN, VI X | 1 | 85.8% | +13.4% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1 | 48.7% | +45.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542839 | Fabric Reinforced Prosthetic Suspension Sleeve | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18083658 | Novel Elastomeric Gel Liner | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 29d |
| 18805124 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | NGUYEN, VI X | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18083658 | Novel Elastomeric Gel Liner | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 29d |
| 18896319 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 18805124 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | NGUYEN, VI X | — |
| 18802802 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18896319 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | BATES, DAVID W | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18805124 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | NGUYEN, VI X | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18802802 | Prosthetic Ankle Joint | BATES, DAVID W | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18542839 | Fabric Reinforced Prosthetic Suspension Sleeve | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18083658 | Novel Elastomeric Gel Liner | WOO, JONATHAN BRIAN | 1754 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
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