Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Christiana Care Health System Inc. manages 5 pending office actions in the Networking & Security technology area. These filings are spread across 3 distinct art units, showing a focused but distributed examination environment for their security-related patents. The company interacts with 5 distinct examiners, matching the count of pending office actions. This arrangement ensures that each active matter is being reviewed by a different official at the patent office.
THIEU, BENJAMIN M is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the assigned staff. The 3 distinct art units indicate that the company must navigate the specific requirements of multiple specialized groups. The presence of 1 pending office action under THIEU, BENJAMIN M ensures that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THIEU, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 84.3% | +15.3% |
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 1 | 25.7% | +47.7% |
| PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | 1 | 62.0% | +43.0% |
| ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 1 | 16.1% | +67.6% |
| BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 1 | 80.1% | +13.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096083 | COMMUNICATION PLATFORM SHIFTING FOR VOICE-ENABLED DEVICE | THIEU, BENJAMIN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18804260 | ADAPTIVE LIMB AND JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18673839 | SENSOR-BASED SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY MONITORING AND AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENT OF OXYGEN DELIVERY | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | — |
| 18651092 | CATHETERIZATION TRAINING DEVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| 17944592 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PASSIVE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096083 | COMMUNICATION PLATFORM SHIFTING FOR VOICE-ENABLED DEVICE | THIEU, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18804260 | ADAPTIVE LIMB AND JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| 18673839 | SENSOR-BASED SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY MONITORING AND AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENT OF OXYGEN DELIVERY | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | — |
| 18651092 | CATHETERIZATION TRAINING DEVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | — |
| 17944592 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PASSIVE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2447 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19096083 | COMMUNICATION PLATFORM SHIFTING FOR VOICE-ENABLED DEVICE | THIEU, BENJAMIN M | 2447 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18804260 | ADAPTIVE LIMB AND JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18673839 | SENSOR-BASED SYSTEM FOR RESPIRATORY MONITORING AND AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENT OF OXYGEN DELIVERY | PATEL, ROHAN DEEP | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18651092 | CATHETERIZATION TRAINING DEVICE | ANTOINE, LISA HOPE | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 17944592 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PASSIVE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 3636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
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