Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Communications
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This single matter is being examined within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the specific technical category of the company's current communication-related intellectual property. With 1 pending action, the company's current prosecution strategy is focused on the technical classification of the 1 distinct art unit.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. As there is 1 pending action in the entire portfolio, DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN is responsible for the company's total current interaction with the patent office. This creates a scenario where the company's immediate success in the Communications field depends on the specific examination style of this 1 examiner. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit involved, as they represent the entirety of the company's active patent prosecution.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 1 | 77.0% | +24.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19293924 | RELOCATION MODULE AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EQUIPMENT | DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19293924 | RELOCATION MODULE AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EQUIPMENT | DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
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