Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dignity Health is currently navigating 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 11 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending cases are currently being handled by the same person. The prosecution activity is further distributed across 9 distinct art units, showing that the company's medical innovations touch upon several different technical classifications at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC, is responsible for 1 pending case. This perfectly mirrors the overall distribution where 11 distinct examiners handle 11 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this lack of examiner overlap means that there is no central point of contact who can influence a large portion of the portfolio. Each of the 11 actions must be prosecuted as an independent matter with its own examiner-specific strategy.
The involvement of 9 distinct art units suggests that while the technology is centered on medical devices, it is diverse enough to be reviewed by multiple technical groups. This requires the practitioner to be familiar with the varying examination standards across these 9 units. With 11 distinct examiners to manage, the prosecution process is decentralized, requiring a broad range of arguments to satisfy the individual requirements of each examiner involved in the 11 pending actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (43%) |
| §103 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.6% |
| CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1 | 60.4% | +40.9% |
| SHIN, SOO JUNG | 1 | 87.1% | +16.2% |
| LAMPRECHT, JOEL | 1 | 81.4% | +16.8% |
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
| TRAN, NHU | 1 | 68.4% | +17.5% |
| SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1 | 49.4% | +35.4% |
| MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1 | 62.5% | +47.9% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 45.7% | +43.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 146d overdue |
| 16975877 | CHITINASE PROTEINS IN NEUROLOGIC DISEASE | OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | 35d overdue |
| 17998884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PREDICTIVE DOUBLE-BOOKING MEDICAL APPOINTMENT SYSTEM | ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K | 4d overdue |
| 17771329 | APPARATUS FOR STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION OF AN EXOSKELETON | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 12d |
| 17118944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 27d |
| 19195051 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 18936762 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
| 18728019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CHANNELS | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 146d overdue |
| 18545736 | CATHETER SYSTEM FOR DRAINING A BODILY FLUID FROM A FLUID SOURCE IN A BODY | TRAN, NHU | 3d overdue |
| 18261319 | MODULATION OF CHITINASE PROTEIN EXPRESSION | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 20d |
| 19195051 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | — |
| 19027421 | DRUG DELIVERY COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FABRICATION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | — |
| 18936762 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
| 18728019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CHANNELS | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
| 18575777 | ONE-PASS CATHETER TUNNELER | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19195051 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SPATIAL QUANTITATIVE AND ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE SURGICAL CORRIDOR MODELING PLATFORM | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19027421 | DRUG DELIVERY COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FABRICATION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18936762 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR SELECTIVELY PRESENTING IMAGES CAPTURED BY CONFOCAL LASER ENDOMICROSCOPY | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18728019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CHANNELS | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18575777 | ONE-PASS CATHETER TUNNELER | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 3781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18545736 | CATHETER SYSTEM FOR DRAINING A BODILY FLUID FROM A FLUID SOURCE IN A BODY | TRAN, NHU | 3781 | DP | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18551430 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE-LEARNING GUIDED TREATMENT PLANNING AND MONITORING OF ELECTRIC FIELD THERAPY IMPLANTS | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18261319 | MODULATION OF CHITINASE PROTEIN EXPRESSION | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18251580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING ELECTRIC FIELD IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUES | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18117842 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MICROSACCADE DYNAMICS TO MEASURE ATTENTIONAL RESPONSE TO A STIMULUS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17998884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PREDICTIVE DOUBLE-BOOKING MEDICAL APPOINTMENT SYSTEM | ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17771329 | APPARATUS FOR STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION OF AN EXOSKELETON | HOWELL, GWYNNETH LINNEA | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17118944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SEPSIS | HADDAD, MOUSSA MAHER | 3796 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Dec 11, 2020 |
| 16975877 | CHITINASE PROTEINS IN NEUROLOGIC DISEASE | OGUNTADE, ELIZABETH BISOLA | 1677 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2020 |
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