Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Board Of Regents Of The University Texas System shows current activity in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action for this entity, indicating a specific and limited volume of active prosecution at the moment. This suggests that the university's current efforts in this technical field are focused on a particular set of medical or mechanical inventions.
The portfolio is being examined by 1 distinct examiner within a single distinct art unit. This level of focus means that the current filings are not spread across multiple technical divisions, which can help in maintaining a consistent prosecution strategy. SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG is the busiest examiner identified in the data, serving as the key individual responsible for reviewing the entity's claims.
SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matches the total number of pending actions for the Board Of Regents Of The University Texas System, showing that the entity's current efforts are concentrated under one examiner's review. This provides a clear and direct path for its patent applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, allowing for a more efficient resolution of pending issues.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 1 | 54.8% | +55.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17635670 | PHARYNGEAL TUBE FOR ESTABLISHING A PATIENT AIRWAY | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17635670 | PHARYNGEAL TUBE FOR ESTABLISHING A PATIENT AIRWAY | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
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