Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Halton OY is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio's subject matter is diverse enough to trigger different specialized reviews within the patent office. This distribution requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the varying standards of multiple examination groups.
YOO, REGINA M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners each handling a portion of the 3 pending actions, the workload is distributed evenly across the examining staff. This distribution suggests that the practitioner must manage three separate examiner relationships simultaneously. Because the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated under a single examiner, the company must ensure consistency in its arguments across the 2 distinct art units. This level of activity in the medical device sector highlights a multi-faceted approach to securing intellectual property rights, where each of the 3 distinct examiners provides a unique hurdle in the path toward allowance.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.0% | +20.3% |
| CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.9% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001845 | PROTECTIVE AIR SUPPLY SYSTEM IN A CLEAN ROOM AND A METHOD FOR SUPPLYING PROTECTIVE AIR FLOW | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 5d |
| 18402492 | DECONTAMINATION SYSTEM HAVING A MODULAR DECONTAMINATION UNIT | YOO, REGINA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001845 | PROTECTIVE AIR SUPPLY SYSTEM IN A CLEAN ROOM AND A METHOD FOR SUPPLYING PROTECTIVE AIR FLOW | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 5d |
| 18538858 | AIR FLOW CONTROL UNIT, SYSTEM FOR VENTILATION SYSTEM OF BUILDING AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VENTILATION OF BUILDING | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18402492 | DECONTAMINATION SYSTEM HAVING A MODULAR DECONTAMINATION UNIT | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18538858 | AIR FLOW CONTROL UNIT, SYSTEM FOR VENTILATION SYSTEM OF BUILDING AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VENTILATION OF BUILDING | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18001845 | PROTECTIVE AIR SUPPLY SYSTEM IN A CLEAN ROOM AND A METHOD FOR SUPPLYING PROTECTIVE AIR FLOW | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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