Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ascilion AB has 2 pending office actions distributed across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters involve 2 distinct examiners and are situated within 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution path despite the small number of active filings. This distribution suggests that the company's innovations span different technical classifications, requiring the legal team to adapt to the specific examination styles of 2 different patent office departments.
JONATHAN EPHRAIM COOPER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending office actions currently facing the company. With 2 distinct art units in play, the company is navigating multiple examination standards simultaneously, which may increase the complexity of maintaining consistency across the broader patent portfolio while addressing the specific requirements of each technical unit.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 46.2% | +44.4% |
| COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 1 | 46.4% | +31.8% |
| KOO, BENJAMIN K | 1 | 57.3% | +49.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797377 | A MICRONEEDLE AND A FLUID CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING FLUID | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797377 | A MICRONEEDLE AND A FLUID CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING FLUID | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 16d overdue |
| 17626005 | INTEGRATED SENSOR ASSEMBLY UNIT | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | — |
| 17496257 | MICRONEEDLE AND CHIP | KOO, BENJAMIN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17797377 | A MICRONEEDLE AND A FLUID CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING FLUID | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
| 17626005 | INTEGRATED SENSOR ASSEMBLY UNIT | COOPER, JONATHAN EPHRAIM | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2022 |
| 17496257 | MICRONEEDLE AND CHIP | KOO, BENJAMIN K | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialAscilion AB has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Huong Q Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Ascilion AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
