Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fondation Bordeaux Universite is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is responsible for the company's entire current workload. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical classifications within their medical device filings.
EISEMAN, LYNSEY C serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending action. This figure matches the workload of the other examiner, as the 2 pending actions are split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy involves different medical or mechanical sub-categories, requiring the legal team to adapt to the specific standards of 2 different administrative groups. This distribution means that the outcome of the 2 pending actions will depend on the unique perspectives of 2 different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.9% |
| LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 1 | 76.3% | +40.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550616 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A REPRESENTATIVE CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 29d overdue |
| 18563823 | DEVICE WITH MULTI-EMITTERS OF LASER ENERGY AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING HEAT TREATMENT | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 75d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550616 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A REPRESENTATIVE CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 29d overdue |
| 18563823 | DEVICE WITH MULTI-EMITTERS OF LASER ENERGY AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING HEAT TREATMENT | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18563823 | DEVICE WITH MULTI-EMITTERS OF LASER ENERGY AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING HEAT TREATMENT | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18550616 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A REPRESENTATIVE CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY | LUKJAN, SEBASTIAN X | 3792 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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