Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hemosonics LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. The focus on chemistry suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are directed toward pharmaceutical or material science developments.
KWAK, DEAN P is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action, matching the total pending workload for the portfolio. Having the entire workload under a single examiner allows for a centralized prosecution process, where the applicant can focus on the specific requirements of one individual.
Practitioners should consider that the prosecution outcome is heavily dependent on the examiner's perspective on the chemical arts. The alignment of the technology area with the assigned art unit indicates that the application is being reviewed by specialists in chemistry. Effective prosecution will require a detailed technical response that addresses the specific prior art and legal standards applied within this art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326492 | CHARACTERIZATION OF BLOOD HEMOSTASIS AND OXYGEN TRANSPORT PARAMETERS | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326492 | CHARACTERIZATION OF BLOOD HEMOSTASIS AND OXYGEN TRANSPORT PARAMETERS | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18326492 | CHARACTERIZATION OF BLOOD HEMOSTASIS AND OXYGEN TRANSPORT PARAMETERS | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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