Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dukal LLC is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is notably fragmented, as these 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's patent applications cover a diverse range of technical sub-specialties within the broader medical and mechanical fields. Managing 3 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to different examination standards.
The portfolio is being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, with DANIEL A MILLER identified as the busiest examiner despite only managing 1 pending action. This parity among examiners means that no single individual holds a majority of the pending workload, as each of the 3 distinct examiners handles 1 action. Practitioners must prepare for 3 different examination approaches across the 3 distinct art units involved in these filings. This distribution of examiners to pending actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration in the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, DANIEL A | 1 | 34.3% | +57.8% |
| HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA | 1 | 46.1% | +39.3% |
| STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 1 | 63.1% | +48.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196249 | MULTIPLE TUBE INTRAVENOUS FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 74d overdue |
| 18726014 | SILICA GEL FOAM DRESSING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 49d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196249 | MULTIPLE TUBE INTRAVENOUS FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 74d overdue |
| 18726014 | SILICA GEL FOAM DRESSING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 49d overdue |
| 18371682 | TRANSPARENT DRESSING WITH HYDROGEL LAYER | HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18726014 | SILICA GEL FOAM DRESSING | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18371682 | TRANSPARENT DRESSING WITH HYDROGEL LAYER | HAGHIGHATIAN, MINA | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18196249 | MULTIPLE TUBE INTRAVENOUS FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM | STIMPERT, PHILIP EARL | 3783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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