Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apollon Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These filings are all assigned to 1 distinct examiner, creating a centralized prosecution environment for the company. Such a structure allows for a unified response strategy across all pending matters, ensuring that arguments made in one case do not contradict those in another. This level of concentration can be advantageous for building a cohesive patent family where each individual application supports the broader technical disclosures of the company.
The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the pending matters are closely related in their technical scope. LIU, CHU CHUAN, is the busiest examiner, currently handling 4 pending office actions. The outcome of these cases will likely be heavily influenced by this examiner's specific interpretation of the prior art and their understanding of the company's innovations. Practitioners should carefully monitor the progress of each application to identify any emerging patterns in the examiner's feedback that could impact the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 4 | 71.3% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427912 | RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY METHOD FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427880 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY COMPRISING LINEAR VARIABLE FILTER | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 42d overdue |
| 18427879 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY COMPRISING FILTER ARRAY | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 42d overdue |
| 18427873 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1d overdue |
| 18427912 | RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY METHOD FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18427912 | RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY METHOD FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18427873 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18427880 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY COMPRISING LINEAR VARIABLE FILTER | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18427879 | APPARATUS FOR BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT BASED ON RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY COMPRISING FILTER ARRAY | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialApollon Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Chu Chuan Liu has the most, with 4 of Apollon Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
