Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • 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
Griffith University is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, providing a diverse set of reviews for the university's filings. This distribution means that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner, requiring individualized attention for each case.
The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, reflecting the technical variety within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. LUAN, SCOTT is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly distributed across the 2 distinct examiners. This suggests a balanced prosecution environment without a single point of congestion.
Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across the 2 distinct art units to ensure that the arguments made in one area are consistent with those in another. The 1 pending action under LUAN, SCOTT represents a key portion of the current docket. By addressing the 2 pending office actions with a unified strategy, the university can effectively advance its mechanical and medical device innovations through the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.2% | +12.7% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686330 | FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES) APPLICATOR | LUAN, SCOTT | 18d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686330 | FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES) APPLICATOR | LUAN, SCOTT | 18d overdue |
| 16755328 | ZINC IONOPHORES AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18686330 | FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES) APPLICATOR | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 16755328 | ZINC IONOPHORES AND USES THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2020 |
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