Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 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 currently in progress at the patent office. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing 2 different points of contact for the company's filings. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for these pending matters, which may suggest a specific classification or status for the current filings that has not yet been reflected in the art unit records.
BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This represents half of the total 2 pending actions for the portfolio. With 2 examiners and 2 pending actions, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 matter. This distribution means the company must manage 2 separate prosecution tracks simultaneously, even though they are not currently categorized under multiple distinct art units. Practitioners should be prepared to address 2 different sets of examiner feedback and procedural requirements. This decentralized approach for a small portfolio requires careful coordination to ensure that the prosecution of each individual matter aligns with the company's overall intellectual property strategy.
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 | 77.2% | +25.9% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.4% | +37.5% |
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 | — |
| 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 | — | §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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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