Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cytonome/st LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's mechanical filings are categorized into different technical specialties within the patent office.
The 2 pending actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. CHAUDRY, ATIF H is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. The company must address the specific requirements of two different examiners across two separate art units.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 1 | 70.7% | +16.5% |
| GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1 | 39.5% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953925 | HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING APPARATUS AND METHODS | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 45d overdue |
| 17697462 | MICROFLUIDIC ASSEMBLY FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE PARTICLE MANIPULATION | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953925 | HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING APPARATUS AND METHODS | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 17697462 | MICROFLUIDIC ASSEMBLY FOR SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE PARTICLE MANIPULATION | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2022 |
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