Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dalhousie University currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which indicates a slight diversification in the technical classification of their pending applications. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different individual. This distribution requires the university to manage three separate examiner relationships simultaneously across the 2 distinct art units involved in these proceedings.
The busiest examiner for the university is LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed among the assigned personnel. Practitioners should prepare for the specific styles of the 3 distinct examiners, as no single individual holds a majority of the pending matters. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 3 pending office actions may involve different technical standards or prior art landscapes, necessitating a versatile approach to patent prosecution.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | 1 | 79.6% | +21.1% |
| MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 1 | 75.2% | +21.0% |
| HONRATH, MARC D | 1 | 74.5% | +31.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917089 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING UNSOURCED RANDOM ACCESS WITH FEEDBACK SIGNALING AND METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA THEREFOR | LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | — |
| 18254153 | IMPROVING COGNITIVE FUNCTION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17296758 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GATING DELIVERY OF RADIATION BASED ON CAPACITIVE MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY MOTION | HONRATH, MARC D | 79d |
| 18917089 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING UNSOURCED RANDOM ACCESS WITH FEEDBACK SIGNALING AND METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA THEREFOR | LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | — |
| 18254153 | IMPROVING COGNITIVE FUNCTION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917089 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING UNSOURCED RANDOM ACCESS WITH FEEDBACK SIGNALING AND METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA THEREFOR | LYTLE JR., BRADLEY D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18254153 | IMPROVING COGNITIVE FUNCTION | MARLEN, TAMMIE K | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17296758 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GATING DELIVERY OF RADIATION BASED ON CAPACITIVE MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY MOTION | HONRATH, MARC D | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | May 25, 2021 |
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