Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, giving each listed action a separate examination setting.
BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should prepare separate examiner-focused responses and avoid assuming that an approach used for one device matter will transfer to the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 1 | 77.4% | +25.8% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.5% | +37.3% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858637 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A SET OF AT LEAST ONE OPTIMAL CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACQUISITION SEQUENCE | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | — |
| 18889640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A SPATIAL PATTERN FOR A MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTY OF A BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SHEN, QUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858637 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A SET OF AT LEAST ONE OPTIMAL CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE ACQUISITION SEQUENCE | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18889640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A SPATIAL PATTERN FOR A MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTY OF A BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SHEN, QUN | 2662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexei Bykhovski has the most, with 1 of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
