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
Apr Technologies AB currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, resulting in 2 distinct examiners for the portfolio. Furthermore, these matters are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units, indicating that each application falls under a different specialized technical category within the patent office. This structure means there is no overlap in the personnel or the specific art units handling the company's current prosecution.
The busiest examiner for the company is TRAN, BINH Q, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved, every official is managing an individual case. Practitioners must navigate the separate examiner relationships and 2 distinct art units to resolve the active matters. This decentralized arrangement requires addressing the specific technical nuances of each individual art unit independently to move the 2 pending office actions forward.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, BINH Q | 1 | 88.1% | +6.6% |
| KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19478097 | AN ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC PUMP FOR PUMPING A DIELECTRIC FLUID | TRAN, BINH Q | — |
| 18558760 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A LIQUID COOLED MODULE | KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19478097 | AN ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC PUMP FOR PUMPING A DIELECTRIC FLUID | TRAN, BINH Q | 3746 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 18558760 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A LIQUID COOLED MODULE | KIM, ANDREW NATHANIEL | 1727 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
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