Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dukane Ias LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The examiner responsible for this matter is DO, NHAT CHIEU Q, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending case for the company.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution activity is highly focused. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the immediate future of the portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with DO, NHAT CHIEU Q. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner to resolve the single pending matter efficiently. Because there is no diversity in the 1 distinct art unit or the 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying interpretations of the technology. Success in this 1 pending office action will require a direct and precise response to the specific issues raised by DO, NHAT CHIEU Q.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.9% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19558117 | HIGH STIFFNESS BOOSTER WITH COMPLIANT SUPPORT TABS AT NODE OR ANTINODE POSITIONS AND ULTRASONIC WELDING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19558117 | HIGH STIFFNESS BOOSTER WITH COMPLIANT SUPPORT TABS AT NODE OR ANTINODE POSITIONS AND ULTRASONIC WELDING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2026 |
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