Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apollon Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This creates a high level of examiner concentration for the company's current prosecution, as a single individual is responsible for reviewing all active matters.
The portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This means all active applications are being reviewed within the same technical division of the patent office. The combination of a single examiner and a single art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the company's current filings.
LIU, CHU CHUAN is the busiest examiner for this company. This examiner is responsible for all 3 pending office actions. This concentration allows for a singular point of contact and potentially consistent examination across the company's pending applications, as no other examiners are currently involved in the docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (100%) |
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 | 3 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
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 3 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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