Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aspargo Laboratories, Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where each application is handled by a different individual and unit. Such a distribution suggests that the company's patent filings cover a variety of specific technical niches within the broader medical device field.
The workload is evenly spread, as evidenced by the fact that the busiest examiner, LUARCA, MARGARET M, is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This ratio between 1 pending action and 1 examiner suggests that no single examiner holds significant influence over the portfolio's overall progress. Practitioners should prepare for diverse examiner perspectives across these 4 distinct art units, as each examiner may have unique interpretations of the prior art. The presence of 4 distinct art units further confirms that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific procedural norms of multiple administrative groups within the patent office.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUARCA, MARGARET M | 1 | 74.3% | +18.7% |
| GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 57.7% | +40.0% |
| ALLEN, ROBERT F | 1 | 73.2% | +61.9% |
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19373128 | PHYSICIAN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH AND CONTROLLING A MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 19182925 | KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE FOR USE IN A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | ALLEN, ROBERT F | — |
| 19170709 | MEDICATION DISPENSING SYSTEM HAVING A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE WITH KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19379217 | MEDICATION CARTRIDGE | LUARCA, MARGARET M | — |
| 19373128 | PHYSICIAN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH AND CONTROLLING A MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 19182925 | KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE FOR USE IN A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | ALLEN, ROBERT F | — |
| 19170709 | MEDICATION DISPENSING SYSTEM HAVING A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE WITH KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19379217 | MEDICATION CARTRIDGE | LUARCA, MARGARET M | 3785 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19373128 | PHYSICIAN SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH AND CONTROLLING A MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 3683 | §101§102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
| 19182925 | KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE FOR USE IN A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE | ALLEN, ROBERT F | 3783 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19170709 | MEDICATION DISPENSING SYSTEM HAVING A HANDHELD ORAL MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE WITH KEYED MEDICATION CARTRIDGE | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
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