Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Association Institut De Myologie has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, with ALYSSA G WESTON serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The portfolio is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company has multiple active matters, they are concentrated within a single technical examination group at the patent office.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for the pending actions means that each matter is receiving an independent review, even though they share the same art unit. This can be beneficial as it provides different perspectives from within the same technical division. With ALYSSA G WESTON and another examiner each handling 1 pending action, the company must manage separate prosecution timelines and sets of examiner requirements within its focused medical device portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1 | 59.8% | +50.9% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 22d |
| 18735636 | Hybrid Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype Between AAV9 and AAVrh74 with Reduced Liver Tropism | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735636 | Hybrid Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype Between AAV9 and AAVrh74 with Reduced Liver Tropism | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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