Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alveo Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, showing a lack of administrative overlap between the current cases. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the pending matters may cover different technical aspects of medical devices.
The busiest examiner is PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, each examiner is currently managing one action. This distribution means the company must navigate two different examiner styles simultaneously. The practitioner should tailor the response to the specific requirements of PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH for the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Managing 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units requires a versatile prosecution strategy. The company must address the unique feedback from each examiner to resolve the 2 pending office actions. This structure ensures that no single examiner has total control over the current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. Success will depend on meeting the specific expectations of both PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH and the other assigned examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 1 | 59.0% | +50.4% |
| LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE | 1 | 71.2% | +42.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690897 | VIAL ADAPTOR | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | — |
| 17935513 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING ANALYTES | LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690897 | VIAL ADAPTOR | PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 17935513 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING ANALYTES | LOPEZLIRA, ASHLEY NICOLE | 1700 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
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